For GSS Climate Change chapter 8. Excerpt: ...The polar ice cap is
melting, and if executives at the Russian energy company Novatek feel
guilty about profiting from that, they do not let it be known in public.
...Novatek, in partnership with the French energy company Total and the
China National Petroleum Corporation, is building a $20 billion
liquefied natural gas plant on the central Arctic coast of Russia. It is
one of the first major energy projects to take advantage of the summer
thawing of the Arctic caused by global warming. The plant, called Yamal
LNG, would send gas to Asia along the sea lanes known as the Northeast
Passage, which opened for regular international shipping only four years
ago. .... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/business/energy-environment/polar-thaw-opens-shortcut-for-russian-natural-gas.html. Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times. [Note: this is a "socio-economic-inclusive" positive feedback loop: the more global warming there is, the easier it is to transport fossil fuel, which in turn makes more global warming.] |
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