Cynic Root

What happens when the ice caps melt? Sit back and enjoy the ride.

Run for the hills, the icecaps are melting.
Humanity makes another giant step into the realms which were once reserved only for science fiction. Technology has just enabled us to see what happens when the ice caps melt.
Experts say that the northern pole’s ice cap will completely melt this summer.
I guess the ice wasn’t holding the sky up, because the sky still isn’t falling.

What will probably happen?

• Polar bears will drown for a lack of ice to stand on. They had their 15 minutes with Knut (http://www.knut.net/), but since it has grown they are just not as popular. I never did like them anyway.
• We get more oil. There are tons of it under the ice cap, and finally we used up enough oil to get the world hot enough for us to be able to drill some more in the arctic.
• Ships now have a very short route between Asia and Europe. No need for Panama Canal or Suez Canal. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/16/climatechange). Europeans get cheaper Japanese cars!
  Well, some environmentalists argue that ships might harm the environment in the melted areas. So, we’ve just got rid of those damn polar bears, but environmentalist still worry if bears drown in clean water or in oily water. I don’t see any bear complaining.

• Canada and Russia will go to war over arctic territories.

Antarctica, fear not, we’re coming to get you too. We got the oil to do it and Japanese cars just got cheaper.
Never did like those damn penguins. They had their 15 minutes of fame in the movie “Happy Feet”, but now that it’s over we can get rid of them too.