Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.
FFS lets move on from trying to suck every last drop of oil out of the earth’s crust.
Just for context, the US uses around 7 billion barrels per year. Can keep the SUVs going for the better part of a century.
Assholes can roll coal for a century.
Oh for fucks sake.
So, they were looking
Hmm sounds like a good reason to have the ice all melt and speed up us dependency on it - USA 2026 probably
It’s almost poetic. The oil got there because there was once vegetation on Antarctica, that decayed over the eons. Now the thirst for oil will lead to heating the planet enough to melt the ice again.
Kind of like a runaway diesel.
And then an immediate ice age!
Ffs, just fuck off, Russia.
Hate to break it to you but Russia isn’t the only member of the petroleum industry.
But Russia is the one doing oil prospecting while masking it as seismic research which obviously skirts the intent of the Antarctic Treaty, which other countries actually do honor
Who put the barrels there!!!
Death to Oil
Add this to the list of “problems the wealthy make sure we don’t solve.”
I fear it’s rather death for, or death by oil for us.
We should make a song, death…death to the O.I.L… Same tune as Bob Vylan did in Glastonbury.
The year is 2070. Common daily temps are between 35-45°C. Only 200k humans survive globally, and barely.
They still use fossil fuels to generate electricity…
A truce has been reached between the forces of AE-X11 Musk and the virtual consciousness of Jeff Bezos as they vow to unite against the tribal council of the former Russian Federation to secure the remaining oil reserves in the desert plains of the Antarctic continent
If there’s only 200K people left, everything is going to be fine … for them.
The robots are relying on fossil fuel too
Human population
nowbeing only 0.00025% of its peak, their greenhouse gas emissions are now insignificant, so, the planet isnowfinally recovering, fast.Edit : obviously I’m not a writer.
daily temps are between 35-45°C
Not in Russia. :D
They will one day.
Just in time for it to not matter as oil demand declines and renewable energy takes over.
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
There are 1.65 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as of 2016.
So another extra 30% or so.
Yeah, we already have more than enough to ruin the world.
For comparison, Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve at 303 billion barrels.
Winter is coming.
Winter is coming.
More like perpetual summer
More like the Permian era summer.
And the reason why they got bad hombres on boats these days.
And Trump is flexing the military at them.
Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve
Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?
They’ve got oil and they’re NOT sharing it with rich people?
Yes. Duh.
Not for much longer, given the current events.
This could be a good thing for venezuelan fishermen.
I read somewhere that a large amount of the refining capacity in America is geared towards dilbit like the one that used to come from Venezuela and now from Canada. Perhaps Venezuelan fishermen’s oil is still cheaper in the end and therefore more desirable.
Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the cocaine?
Not that Venezuela has any. But I think we can all agree that legalizing cocaine and doing lots of cocaine is the most important issue of the day.
COCAINE!!!
Think of it as a weight loss drug for rich people.
More to the point, what will the consequences be of that much carbon being repatriated into the atmosphere? I hear that Siberia has had some awfully hot, miserable summers recently. It’s likely not going to go over well with the climate problems Russia is having.
Hmmmm.
The consequences aren’t a secret. Look up the Planetary Solvency actuarial report from earlier this year, for starters.
This report doesn’t talk about acidification tho. The ocean could drop us faster than light.
As the ocean warms more co2 can dissolve so its an exponential rise
We are cooked guys
Billionaires caused this
We have been cooked for a while. I don’t think there’s anything after well-done, except burnt.
This is incredible
It shall be called the Maillard Era.
After well done it’s “congratulations”.
Well done and approaching burnt quickly.
