Benefiting From Climate Change Disaster

There are some environmentalists that i know who firmly believe that one day, those in power will finally realise what is going on with our environment and finally do something about it. I'm not so sure because if more extreme weather conditions and unprecedented floods won't do it, what will?
Yesterday it was announced that there is a record Arctic ice melt going on and the 2012 figure has not only beaten the previous record, set in 2007 but has beaten it with almost a months further melting to go according to scientists of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Norwegian and Danish government monitoring organisations.
NSIDC scientist Walt Meier said: 'This is an indication that the Arctic sea ice cover is fundamentally changing' and the Chief Scientist of NASA, Waleed Abdalati, warned: 'it's a situation with very, very much at stake and the potential for extreme events start to expand. This is what we're grappling with'.
Scary stuff you might think and look towards what the Worlds Governments are doing to save us from such catastrophic events.
Not what you may think because where we see melting sea-ice as a looming disaster they see it as an opportunity to mine for oil.
The Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal have said that the Arctic Circle may hold as much as 160 billion barrels, worth 18 trillion dollars.
Cairn Energy, an Edinburgh oil exploration company, is drilling four test wells off the west coast of Greenland and Shell, Rosneft, BP and Exxon are all in the process of starting programmes of oil exploration in the region.
Greenpeace said: 'We've seen how our actions are changing the world, and the idea that we're going to go and use the retreating sea ice as a business opportunity is frankly madness'.
The Arctic was largely off-limits because much of the land was considered unworkable as it was buried under hundreds of metres of snow and ice but global warming, caused by the very companies that are now benefiting from the disaster that is quickly unfolding on a global scale, is good news for the oil business.
The oil companies were always the most vociferous when it came to denying what was happening to the climate, donating tens of millions to the useful idiots in the climate sceptic groups who acted as their mouthpieces.
When future generations look back at the meagre inheritance that we have left them, they will rightly conclude that the people in power who could have done something about it, were among the most irresponsible and immoral politicians in history.