The race for the Arctic is ramping up. Here’s why.
The ice in the arctic is melting, revealing huge amounts of fossil fuels, rare earths and new shipping routes. And the rush to secure these has already begun. Will countries continue their race for economic and militaristic advantages or will they finally work together to solve the global problem of climate change?
Credits
Reporter: Monika Sax
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Kiyo Dörrer & Michael Trobridge
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
#PlanetA #Arctic #FossilFuels
Special thanks (for research support and background information):
The Arctic Council: www.arctic-council.org/
GRID-Arendal: www.grida.no/
Malte Humpert, The Arctic Institute: www.thearcticinstitute.org/
Dr. Nina Döring, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS): www.iass-potsdam.de/de
Andreas Østhagen, Fridtjof Nansen Institute: www.fni.no/
Elena Tracy, Arctic Programme, WWF: www.arcticwwf.org/
Dr. Sanna Kopra, The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law Arctic Centre, University of Lapland & The Arctic Institute | Center for Circumpolar Security Studies: www.thearcticinstitute.org/ex...
Dr. Volker Rachold, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung: www.arctic-office.de/
Dr. Michael Paul, SWP Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs: www.swp-berlin.org/
Read more:
Status of offshore oil and gas activities and regulatory frameworks in the Arctic (May 2021): pame.is/document-library/pame...
Various arctic fact sheets: www.arctic-office.de/en/publi...
Impact of Arctic Change: arcticrisk.org/latest-data/
Information about arctic peoples, biodiversity, climate, ocean, pollutants, emergencies: www.arctic-council.org/resour...
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 The run to the melting Arctic has begun
02:44 Why the Arctic is so important
04:13 Political leaders and their plans
05:55 Arctic players today - where are they?
06:57 How scientific guess became fact
07:34 The people & habitat of the Arctic
09:00 Effects of traffic in the Arctic
10:52 Introducing the Arctic Council
11:17 Conclusion
Should we really mine the Arctic?
No
No way
(FETAL HEART ATTACKS UP BY 1200%) This video on youtube needs to be watched by everyone that has children on Parents planning to have a family.
No.. I think that we still have so many options that we don't need to mine there
As someone else said it would take a few years before this drilling could go online so it would be better to invest in sustainable generation than more oil drilling.
Ice melting allowing access to more fossil fuels? What a terrible irony.
You said it
Naw u don't understand how it works.
@@gladlawson61 then explain it
Melting ice will also change the direction if not block the golf stream, making EU cooler.Funny how that works.
@@Grandstonie that Gulf Stream is the only reason europe isn’t a cold wasteland like Siberia
This reminds me of the movie "Don't look up" when instead of destroying the comet they let it get as close as possible to extract the minerals it contained
That was exactly the reason for the movie. The comet is an analogy for climate change by fossil fuels.
Is west and European countries ready to stop using coal, petrol and diesel....white means hypocrisy
@@SuperMan-if8sp basically yes
💀
Ya I watched that and it was troubling. That could be us?
I like how Battlefiled 2042 kinda predicts the future, because they have a map called "Breakaway" and it's an oil rig on the ice in Antarctica. And the United States and Russia are fighting for it.
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
The consiquence of industrialization, a hunger for resources that can never be satisfied
@@dawarboss3709 Not industrialization, capitalism.
@@isaaclai1636 industrialized nations in general become resource hungry regardless of whatever system.
My Father used to tell us -There are no Monsters under your Bed, They all work in Government !!🧐
What a generalisation 🤦♂️ of course there are bad people in politics, but (at least in democratic countries) they're not a majority and can't influence important decisions
Further destroying our planet for private profits is the epithome of idiocy.
this is reality😂😂
@DeathToMockingBirds Cry 😭 harder 🤡DW Channel loves exaggerating the effects of climate change
100% spot on.
@@robert0908 the worst part is that it was totally preventable but no people are fine accommodating to their demise.
Just dreaming a new world as Creative Society do 😅
Would really love more videos on Arctic policy and its future. Very interesting
View the 'Tony ...
Heller' channel for some reality on the climate.
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
The best part is China saying it has a claim to the arctic..
China is always aggressive in everything,i don't understand what they mean by near Arctic lol
@@odirascarceman3872 exactly bro🤣 By the argument Japan or even the Korea’s have a stronger “claim” for being “near Arctic.”
Why not? America made claim on IRAQ's oil, China's making claim on artic oil. At least china don't need to kill 100s of thousands to make the claim
@@MrJustin259 But they aren’t gonna get any oil from arctic,on least Russia give them there portion
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
Lol, "Scientists from twenty countries - including Russia"...As we all know, Russia geographically has the access to around 50% of the Arctic Circle. So, your headline should be: "Scientist from Russia - including twenty countries"...
I just hate how much greed and sadness and destruction of the earth people have done. There is no future.
Not whit that attitude, embrace nuclear power and you will have your future
It's not all doom and gloom there's hope we're progressing
@@bottleflaskan802 the main reason we don't have more nuclear power capacity is because of the capital cost and because solar/wind as well as natural gas are cheaper on a per unit basis
Humans are mostly the same as we have been for generations, ie we cooperate really well in groups of less than 50. We came to dominate the world because of our cooperation and communication, as well as the invention of agriculture. We are capable of great cuelty and greed but also great altruism, solidarity and compassion. We have hope because decarbonization is already happening and will continue due to market forces but we need to make it happen faster. There are and will be worsening impacts of climate change. I appreciate the sentiment and you probably already agree but we can and must do more and we can't just be nihilistic. Understand that its not your fault and not your responsibility alone, which is something I've learnt to accept. But we need to do more and do it faster
@@ocean6462 I hope so.... but sometimes I seriously wonder.
Human greed is amazing. Doesn't matter how rich and comfortable majority of us are, we just want more!
It's because every source of energy wants to spend more energy. It's the cycle of life. That's why gravity exists, Why life exists and why magnetic fields exist. Energy is drawn to more energy and that includes humans. Humans are built out of energy that wants to use more energy. Only our intelligence is keeping us from spending even more energy (fossil fuels, nuclear, food, etc).
not "WE"....
dont say we
@@silversrayleigh8980 I am just talking as the general public and it is the fact that majority of the people do not care about environment and climate change.
'Some' - the 1% - always want more and more and more .... they will kill any number of people to get it, immiserate many more, and kill a planet ... all because they want 'more'.
"There's oil" There, I've saved you 14 minutes of your life
There need to be protests against this, globally
Just to be clear, the arctic has not been untouched for millions of years. The Inuit people have been living there for atleast 8 thousand years.
It’s only crakkkaz that can’t go anywhere without ruining it
That's not what they meant, it's the "potential" untouched ground reserves.
They are not capable of changing the environment as developed societies are.
Yeah the Inuits totally built oil rigs and drilled there for the past 8000 years
Not forgetting the Eskimos either.
Superb analysis and presentation! Touches on the key issues that face our planet and our civilization. Every thinking human must watch this!
and they show that they dont do anything to fix the key issues that face the planet
@@Climatechangeisnotreal View the 'Tony ...
Heller' channel for some reality on the climate.
Won't the Arctic melting provide catastrophic sea level rise?
Of course - the 1% will repair to their mega-yachts and sip what little champagne is left while the 99% drown.
@Mădălina , Sea level rise? Lol , no ! It’s the Arctic ! Duh
Yes and no. Floating sea-ice already displaces water so melting only changes states from solid to liquid and does not increase overall sea level. However, glaciers and large formations of ice on land, such as in Greenland, certainly will have an affect on sea-level rise. Sea level rise itself will certainly be an issue for coastal low-lying cities and territory and will likely result in long term mitigating projects and some cases retreating infrastructure to higher ground over long term. There are also numerous other issues of such large quantities of fresh water being introduced into the world's salt water dominant oceans though and in many cases the outcomes are hard to quantify and predict!
Not really. Think of the earth like a giant cup. When you have ice in your cup of drink, does it overflow when the ice melts? If ice and snow melt from mountains, still won’t see much difference
@@aosbc4294 It makes me wonder how fresh water melting into the ocean would impact the salinity of the oceans. 🤔
It infuriates me how greedy our leaders are
That’s right Instead of calling them great we need to call them the greedy Nations.
Do something about it. Network, get involved, and don't stop. By omission or commission we get the leadership we accept. Don't accept them, fight back! The children you save may be your own!
t is not greed but simple math. There was 4.3 billion people in 1980 , now we have 8 billion people in 2022 to support. More people need and use more of everything
@@pearls1626 instead of us paying our taxes we should all stop, and March and take down theses powerful people.
@@stefanschleps8758 Do you think we don’t already do that? If one thousand people make the effort they can easily displace our effort by propagandizing millions. It’s time to radically change the worlds governments with a new ideology
In Arctic Circle ,how World great power involved in resources and geopolitics - DW explained it very nicely.
China: let. Me. In. LET ME INNNNN!!!!!
@@blablableep6811 China somehow butts into everything even without any relevant proximity to the location haha
I wrote about this in my undergrad international relations class back in 2008. It’s only continued to trend towards conflict. As the circumstances were so different then, Chinas emerging role in this really expedites things towards a muddier situation ripe for conflict. Hopefully we can label these as zones of environmental stability and a huge need in the overall life of the planet.
Even a child sees the outcome if no easier way for energy is found 😂
"China's emerging role" involves signing trade deals with arctic nations, for the explicit purpose of furthering international trade. They don't have any territorial claims in the arctic. It is in their best interest for a peaceful, globalized world. So why did you single them out and associate them with "a muddier situation ripe for conflict"?
@@unifieddynasty China is a bunch of Han Enthno-Communists. There is no place for bigots in the globalized world.
@@bobSeigar You have no idea what you're talking about and your comment only exposes your own racist bigoted views towards Chinese people.
@@unifieddynasty Bcoz they are interested in the Central Arctic Ocean region and their shipping interest to avoid the Malacca dilemma
i feel humans will never learn to do the right thing and help the planet
nope
I think we have helped plants distribute seeds to ensure that they do not go extinct. We preserve new mutations. Through grafting, people can taste the same apple that was grown in ancient Rome, we have transported the jungle fowl and kept its mutations and we have protected many animals that would be slaughtered by predators. The Ben Franklin tree. One specimen was found, I think, in the 1700s. But they offer them for sale now.
@@diminudivadollhaus2097 nothing you said has any effect on nature itself it is simply human intervention and there is nothing to say that the planet would not be ok without those things. what you said is just humans trying to play god. life existed for hundreds of millions of years before us, we should be smart enough to preserve that not control it in its entirety.
@diminudivadollhaus2097 Are you set to profit from any of this? I can't fathom how someone can defend greed even though it does not benefit them.
No they won’t because they greedy. The more they get they more they want. It’s quite sad!
Thank you for the video and brining more awareness to others. Makes me wonder about the many other motives of the Antarctica landmass and everyone staking claims down there too, as well as all the chemtrail spraying that seemed to have caused more warmer weather around the globe; that may have sped up the melting. Also the natural weakening of the magnetic field of the Earth and the speeding up and the speeding up and shifting of the poles; most likely brining about erratic weather patterns, jet stream fluctuations, volcanos and earthquakes too. Saw a video the other day from BBC about giant solar lenses in space to beam down microwaves from the Suns energy to earth for power, reminds me of the ancient stories of the large lenses or mirrors they used for power and war. Some videos below to expand awareness, regardless if you have any background on their subject matter or not; keep and open heart and open mind. May they ignite a knowing within you both personally for your own Being and for the betterment of the Planet and all life on it. Its a mix below of spiritual and of science as "One", as it has to be in order to be aligned and whole again. Love and Peace, Chris Short clip about Free Energy Tech kzhead.info/sun/h5aYZ6yRrIWbqJs/bejne.html Part 1: Start at 8 min and 17 seconds, close eye and just listen with quiet and in your heart. kzhead.info/sun/ZqWxmLtpnmt-nXk/bejne.html Part 2: Click and close eyes again and keep open mind and heart. kzhead.info/sun/jNSmj8htjKOFfq8/bejne.html Tesla, Great Pyramid and Free Energy: 30 minutes kzhead.info/sun/i7ltaaqLgKpmkp8/bejne.html Carl Muncks: The Code. 5 hours log about ancient sites, the math, their placement, energy of the sites, the energy of the earth and the Great Pyramid. You may want to view the first 3 min and then forward to 4 hours and 17 seconds for the info about the Great Pyramid, its functions and the energy and tilt of the earth in the past and of today. The go back and view the whole first parts. kzhead.info/sun/ZM9sfL2Jm32Kh2g/bejne.html Ancient Knowledge Full Doc: even longer, enjoy. Its best to discovery within on a spiritual level of inner and outer energies and realms, then you gain a more expansive understanding of it all and not just mental. So a change to a cleaner diet, nature, backing away from people, places and things that are of lower nature and so on; will assist process. kzhead.info/sun/naaxebaFnZNnqas/bejne.html Maybe from your other channel: German Village goes alt and sustainable energy power. kzhead.info/sun/p6lpXc-hZHV4mas/bejne.html “It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing economic security at the expense of the human soul, mind, & body. We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.” Manly P. Hall "There Lies a World hidden, mysterious, unknown, & forbidden. Where dwell entities with technologies beyond our comprehension & knowledge kept hidden from us, in this other dimension. Will the truth ever be revealed? Earthly forces of power & greed forever sealed, forbidden knowledge for warfare to wield. When humankind understands, to use the knowledge acquired from these strange lands. For the benefit of humankind, then entrance into their world we will find." ~ F.S
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
DW strikes again with another mindblowing video. You guys have the best video editing team in the world!
Great fideo. Our future is bright.
mindblowing?
Really enjoyed this mini-documentary format!!
I wish UNCLOS would have never extended the EEZ by adding the complex and contentious clauses regarding extension due to the continental shelf. A clear up to 200 nautical mile from the baseline for the EEZ would eliminate much of the conflict.
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
Very very interesting video. Thank you for sharing this with the world. 🌎
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
Thank you DW. You are at the forefront of bringing awareness to issues that every human being needs to take note of.
And what about Creative Society is saying in this days ?
@@sqrta2plusb2equalsc i'm an observer, not a fan of this or that, it's (tragically) funny that Creative Society arrived at nearly the same data (CS 2027/8 - McP 2026/7)of Dr. Guy Mc Pherson (Nature Bats Last at the edge of extinction only Love remains) as a crucial moment for Earth Life
Is west and European countries ready to stop using coal, petrol and diesel....white means hypocrisy
‘Awareness’ = future government exploitation that justifies their actions for the ‘greater good’ aka greed
Awareness is not the problem. Commitment is. How do we get the mighty guys to hear the shot?
There was a large gas play near the MacKenzie delta in the early '70s. Enough was found to justify a pipeline down the valley, but it was never built.
Ancient civilizations and laser tunneling - down 6.2 miles or 10 km - close to 300,000 miles of tunnels - the climate was much warmer before the Cosmic Event or Cosmic War and the Exploding Planet X caused the asteroid belt , Flooding the tunnels will solve any problems of the oceans rising but could cause another Ice Age ?
I wonder why they didn't
@@tylersoto7465 Stopped by government commission enquiry.
@@davidford694 oh ok , but now govt enquiry must be looser now with all the resources things going on
@@tylersoto7465 Unlikely.
My god...the world is being run by insane people. If we don't come together and stop these corporate criminals, we are lost.
Too late
It’s been untouched for millions of years… World leaders: Let’s go exploit it!
`cause otherwise the people will riot due to gas-prices 😉 Jose Mujica (former president of Uruguay) stayed on his farm instead of moving into the presidential palace. But he said: if I try to enforce my modest way of life on the rich, they will kill me.
It’s important to look forward while acting *right now*. Change has arrived in the Arctic, often times irreversible. In fact, big chunks of this ecosystem are very close to being broken forever. Cooperation needs to happen now, and we need to put the earth's health first.
Unfortunately, it's not going to happen.
Stop spending money and it'll be fixed.
Yeah boss I think you’re gonna need the help of the wealthiest government in the world and they plan to watch it melt.
Well if you feel that way I guess we shouldn't stop you from jumping off.
Yeah if the governments weren’t as corrupt and didn’t cater to fossil fuel companies like the UK government for example then maybe we’d have a chance. I hate how the duty to save the planet gets put on my generation when it’s the corporations and governments that should be doing the most. To be fair, some governments are doing a lot to phase out fossil fuels but still not enough I feel.
"It's important to understand that the percentages and estimates that are provided in these reports are really highly uncertain" 😬
Like tomorrow's forecast.
Thankyou so much for your observations. I will share. X
I am totally in favor of global warming. I hate the long, cold winters in Colorado where I live. So a year ago I began focusing on increasing my carbon footprint. Thus far I have been able to raise the average daily temperature in Colorado by 4 degrees. I will continue until I can grow palm trees in my yard. Freedom!
Hope you’re joking 😂
Bruh im in NY and we are burning tires every weekend doing our part to warm the world.
Here they are, the voices of real people, not green fanatics
Haha abrupt cc equals human extinction
Approve from Russia, bro
Everything makes more and more sense each day.
If such oil drilling and extraction continues, i hate even imagining how such human greed would erase and made frozen arctic landscape, many more species and its exotic ecosystem just a mere dream for us which existed at some point of time in Anthropocene epoch.
It won't happen, it doesn't need to. Even if they did drill in the arctic, it wouldn't affect the Earth. Consider the fact that nature has been removing CO2 from the atmosphere for millions of years. The Earth's atmosphere needs more CO2, as explained in the video, *'Dr. Patrick Moore - A Dearth of Carbon?'.*
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
Anthropocene is basically a pimped-up word for exponentially growing resource-extraction everywhere and hyperbolic development of the resources remaining.
@@DimaStudKPI View the video, 'all wars ...
are bankers' ...
Thank You DW for the very important and useful one!
At personal level no one can handle and limit excessive environment and resources abuses. We need some global international systems. Totally unbiased.
I'm going to move to Nome, Alaska, to sell air conditioners and ice makers, and to grow coconuts and bananas.
Too late, somebody is allready growing oranges in alaska
View the r e a l i t y on climate. View the 'Tony...
Heller' channel. He uses several platforms.
With solar and wind tech where it is today it just seems silly to invest in new oil and gas wells. It’s like going to the store to buy a new phone and opting for a rotary dial land line instead of a smart phone. I get that there are very serious energy security concerns right now in some European countries, but building a new gas well in the arctic which won’t come online for several years isn’t going to help with this winter. Might as well dedicate that money to sustainable technology instead.
solar and wind are made with/from fossil fuels :/
@@davidho1258 yes but their total emissions is a fraction of that of burning coal or natural gas. For ex, in just 8 months a solar panel pays of its carbon debt.
(FETAL HEART ATTACKS UP BY 1200%) This video on youtube needs to be watched by everyone that has children on Parents planning to have a family.
How naive… You're thinking mid-to-long-term. Businesses and politicians (the latter generally being in the pocket of the former), pretty much never think of anything other than very short term profits/losses …which, naturally, leads to decisions that are terrible in the long term, and terrible for the people and nature.
As if Russia will allow Europe to mine resources there. While Europe is focused on war in Ukraine, Russia already has increased its military presence there. So, unless Europe wants to confront Russians directly, Europe can't dominate the Arctic.
Why do they drill so many holes in both poles? Is that not aiding the speed of ice melt?
Not quite true the IMO implicated the sulphur cap 2020 which limited emissions, vessels either had to move to exhaust scrubbers or use MGO.
In regards to the Arctic, Russia is ahead, they have the most developed resources to make the best of the Arctic, they have shipping ports built already plus the most icebreakers so we can all expect a war soon
The russian conventional military power is radically weakened, and will be eventually destroyed by Ukraine (with western weapons, much faster). The last argument, the russian aggressor still could threaten the world is its rusty nukes. Especially, when putin will be replaced with even more brainless successors.
This would be the perfect time to solve this problem but the US seems to be siding with Russia rather than Canada.
@@craigb8228 Usonians are overweight and would suffer sky high casualties against Canadian civilians
Russia do own region
Russia has a small population of 147 million with a GDP just above Spain. Who care about Icebreaker when the ice melts.
"It's not as simple as you might think." Yes, it is. Humans' greed always wins.
Mother Nature needs to step in to STOP all these nations from exploration of the Arctic - we can but hope!
Not to mention how much iceberg vodka is worth. Apparently someone in Newfoundland stole a container full of water and it was worth $20,000 so it’s very sought after and I must admit it do taste better. Just try our good ole iceberg beer only sold in Newfoundland it’s the best tasting beer on the planet
If those countries that are "Arctic Neighbors" want to fight over it, I'll expect they'll stay away when it's the Antarctic under dispute. We should at least leave one continent in a pristine state.
There's a treaty for the Antarctic already.
7 countries have already laid claim to territories in the Antarctica. Even tho there is a treaty there are still claims and because of this treaty no more claims can be made.
After the pole shifts they will be lucky to be alive to mine anything along with the rest of us that aren't in an elevation at least 800 ft or more
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
10 years ago there was a big hype for the Arctic shipping routes opening with expensive cruses. It has been a failure as the warming hiatus continues and quite honestly is going in the opposite direction. It will likely become very difficult to work north of the arctic circle in the near future.
the last ice age was 25,000 years ago....the planet is a living and breathing organism, if not it sure acts that way. the next ice age will happen probably because the planet was getting too warm.
@@stevem8318 This is not true. Firstly, we’ve brought Co2 levels to the highest point in approximately 4 million years, highest in human history. After greening until the year 2000, research has shown that the earth has’s greening period has reversed, it’s now getting browner. We’re already seeing ocean acidification due to rising co2 and higher ocean temperatures. We’ve already seen issues with that in regards to food supply; crabs in Maine and Alaska have either attempted to migrate northwards to colder waters or have died trying. That is just a small example of what ecosystems on our planets have had to deal with, after being subjected to the highest levels of co2 in 4 million years.. in just 150 years time. What we need is stability. Earth’s climate for all of recorded human history has been remarkably stable, a range of 1-2C of change ever since the last ice age ended over 10,000 years ago. We clearly have the power to alter Earth’s climate, so why can’t we just keep it where it was? That way we wouldn’t have to worry about ecosystem die-offs from warming or cooling.
@@algol7218 My response to you was censored. Ghost censored.
When that happens I usually delete the comment and try again. Sadly I deleted my first comment in error. The simplest way I can respond to you is to simply write that all your assertions are wrong. The situation is political and it is important that you understand why you are being misled. Organizations such as NOAA and NASA are government funded agencies. The 'government' instructs on what NOAA and NASA must conclude and the corporate media conveys this ...
information. The people in leadership positions are required to have an a l a r m i s t stance. To fully understand the politics you must get out of the msm. On climate a very good ...
Has anyone bothered to go and look at how much sea ice there is in the arctic? And no, summer sea ice has not disappeared despite the hysterics predictions and is not likely to disappear any time soon. The reality is, working in the arctic is extreme and expensive. Just because there are resources there does not mean it is economical to extract them. This is just another example of the typical DW climate hysteria puff piece. You know, like the ones about desert areas experiencing drought and islands where the people have cut down all the trees and over fished the waters because of climate change.
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basicly that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
If you put your drill down are you able to ensure the next country will?
Geostrat the fomo-patient 🤣
I remember 35 years ago when i was child, people were already talking about climat change... I had in my mind that it should be solved in 10-15 years.... and now.... 35 years later it got worst... we have to face what we human really are... we are bad...The last 35 years are simply proving that... As long as money will drive decisions... we will remain bad.... How could i think that in 8 years in 2030 everything could be changed... seriously??
5 billion humans in 1990, soon 10, and most worship karkasdashianretards
I accept that our leaders see more value in letting the ice melt and exploiting the resources than saving our current world. I’m going to enjoy seeing snow while I can.
I think you need to look at other sources of information. Right now, the United Nations is bragging how they are controlling what we can read and see. A group of people were going to sail through the opening Arctic and were stuck because the opening channels froze again. The United Nations wants all the little nations to get huge sums of our tax dollars and they want to brain wash you into believing that the ice caps are melting so you will let your politicians fork it over. Then, the little bureaucrats in their nations can pocket the money and nothing changes except the size of their bank accounts.
Snow every year, but nature is erasing more every day
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982 is the main foundation of legal order, according to which the five polar states bordering the Arctic Ocean have the right to establish a territorial sea up to a limit of twelve nautical miles and an exclusive economic zone of up to 200 nautical miles. Defines the rights and responsibilities of nations in their use of the world's oceans; it establishes guidelines for businesses, the environment, and the management of marine natural resources. To date, 167 countries and the European Union have joined the Convention. This treaty both codified customary international law and established new law and institutions for the ocean. The United States did not ratify UNCLOS because of fears among conservative Republicans that it would undermine U.S. sovereignty by transferring “ownership” of the high seas to the United Nations.
so much history under the artic ice.
And trapped gas. The harmful gases will be released & further propel earth towards an ever worsening climate catastrophe.
History we should leave alone
@@badrulchowdhury7174 we may damage it or we could learn something imagine if we find some creature undiscovered that could turn invisible.
@@shivaannaidoo2527 it wouldn’t conform to laws of physics also we are forcing it to melt with global warming not a good idea. They already discovered many disease under the ice we don’t need
@@badrulchowdhury7174 They are old our human body is too evolved to get infected by these diseases.
Protect our Earth 🌏 Protect the Arctic
Only thing that can increase sea level is solid matter, like rocks or cliffs, falling into the sea.
"Will they cooperate" i dont think so
Save Our Planet
An atmospheric methane scriber and catch is a challenging design.
A real 'cold' war.
... getting hot 🙃
I would have liked this video if there wasn't talked like only one state is the culprit. OK you can be against some nations, (some of) their leaders or specofic people, but please don't use an umbrella term, because you always can hurt people and make them turn against you or your goals.
They don't care, they have an agenda and they are going to push it whether you like it or not. The good thing is at least you can realize but most of the people watching it can't make that evaluation. They just swallow it all
Many voices are louder then one. We must acted now but how, how can we come together to prevent this?
how naive
Solar panels on your roof and an electric car will make oil drilling unprofitable.
An immediate implementation of nuclear energy and the outlaw of drilling oil and fractional distillation
great video, but at 11:37 you say that arctic states are "working together, without russia" and then proceed to give an example of international cooperation which was "signed by the US, Russia, China, EU and several more countries". I'm not a logical fallacy expert or anything but...
A Russian research vessel has discovered 511 billion barrel reserves in British Antarctic territory. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Though when push comes to shove it will be drilled, but not until oil prices have risen.
Russia can place nuclear reactors on oil rig type platforms, to heat the sea water directly
Genius let’s also manipulate the earths magnetism to shift the poles melt the ice kill off all the animals and eventually die a miserable death from all the micro plastics and high fructose corn syrup
Okay, so this was no brainer. Here is question: would there ever be a time for those who will be most affected, 15-25 right now, to wake up, leave *everything* and make climate fight their first priority? Or they will go to oblivion spending time on social media fangirling\fanboying only one day to wake up to find their way of life does not exist anymore? Nature knows, previous generation messed up but we had hope and possibility of decent (enough) life.
One of those people right now, the answer is sadly no. I personally would, if I a) weren’t so scared and b) really thought there was a way I could make difference. However a third reason is that o also know none of my peers would either. Everyone’s so wrapped up in their own life and stories to see what’s happening, and life is still to “comfortable” for most to feel the need to step up. Everyone knows something’s wrong and is deep down unhappy in some intangible way, but most just put it in a small box in the back of their brain and move on. It’ll be too late by the time those boxes are forced open it afraid.
@@granth9942 You seem like tortured soul and sorry about that, almost all fault is ours. But we were caught in same thing - life. Personally, I tried telling\fighting people around me for 25 years without any change. They still won't change. So, here is the conclusion I have come to: - People are lazy, ignorant & most of of them lack imagination and science understanding. So they cannot imagine what world will be. - Individual action is important but there never would be enough (I have been trying 25 years, I know). I still try to bore people to death by bugging them about climate. - You need to stay safe, mentally and physically to make difference. - Most important: Everything evolves around finance. So, if you are not interested in business, or have -ve business acumen like me, you need to invest part of your investments in climate helping elated companies. If you are in relevant field, you can get climate job. There are LOT of them now, just search for climate jobs. The BIGGEST difference can be made by starting a business which does that business, any business, sustainably. Climate finance will keep on rising. But even then it's much better to get with few like minded people and start something together so that you are safe. Ideally we want to reach to a position that even if we find oil 3 feet deep, anywhere, it stays there because we don't want it. Hope this helps. Best.
I believe the elderly need to wake up and destroy the systems that are destroying human life and find a way to feed, care and shelter the unemployed humans.
@@craigb8228 elderly cannot do that; if they could they would have. All throughout human history, that *_always_* needed young blood. That's why this expectation.
People who are 15-25 are given no power, respect or encouragement to make a change. They are told by older generations they are useless and given no authority to fix the mistakes made by those same older generations. Youth nowadays stay inside and watch media sure, but it's better than smoking at 12 years old, pregnant at 14, dead to life by 16 like the generations before social media. What are you doing to prevent catastrophes besides sitting on social media complaining about youth? I doubt you solved global warming at 15 and neither should anyone be expected to. It's people who are 25-65 who should be making a difference. The people who are actually managers, CEOs, politicians, leaders. You cannot expect a 15 year old to walk into Mcdonalds and ask them to change their ways for the health of the planet because no manager/CEO/whatever listens to a 15 year old. There are many cases in this world where a 15 year old is right and a 65 year old is wrong. However the general world view does not value insight, it values experience and status. Two things young people have no control over no matter how good their idea is.
They need to think about restoring it and not exploiting it !
Can’t get restored muppet what do you think a machine is going to generate thousands of years worth of ice 😂
@@DontBeAWollyy reducing global warming might slow the melting of the ice tit! And then when the planet starts to stabilise, ice might start to form again
Very knowledgeable.
Climate change is not that dangerous, during the last ice age Norway was under kilometers of ice. What's dangerous is the over exploitation of fish and wildlife, and the chemicals that make us infertile. Who will breed fish and wildlife when they can no longer do it naturally in the future?
13:15 "it takes an average of 16 years until new oil and gas projects reach maximum productivity" - could you please name me the source where you have this from? I would be very interested, thank you!
You take the productivity of all oil and gas projects and average the time it takes to reach maximum productivity your welcome
I want a big truck and to shop at Walmart and to have my garbage picked up every other day cause its getting to be a lot. So if global warming solves this problem, then I can't wait for my stuff!
Silly me, I thought the idea was to stop using Oil and Gas use altogether. Or did I miss something?
I am not climate activist and I don’t like how come activists do! I kinda scared, when ice melts millions will die and the 100 million of people have to move out of city that will be under the sea.
Sorry but extinction means everyone. You don’t need to worry about sea level rise, we’ll die from starvation long before that
The irony is the world needs these fossil fuels, and rare earth materials to build all these green technology gizmos like electric cars, batteries, solar panels and so on. Your dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t! There should of course be strict rules on how any nation or corporation behaves in these regions.
The real green energy is the atom. Everything else is an attempt to invent a bicycle that has been around for a long time.
You know better that there will be a war at some point because that’s how human race works right?
@DW That looks like exposed rock and NOT black carbon particles as implied by the timing of the narration and the displayed image. 10:29
Mark my words for history. If more humans arrive to the arctic it will only become warmer and eventually the arctic will no longer be a frozen wasteland
Fantastic video!
Not as simple as I think? Eh… I think that the nations (more accurately, those in power, in the nations) will want to further short term economic profits, and exploit the resources, climate change be damned! …with maybe _some_ concern for trying not to look too bad, to the public. That's pretty damn simple, and I fail to see how you could possibly present anything, that would say otherwise.
(FETAL HEART ATTACKS UP BY 1200%) This video on youtube needs to be watched by everyone that has children on Parents planning to have a family.
'No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them': Justin Trudeau gets a standing ovation at energy conference in Texas
there are exhaust treatment systems to limit the black carbon , but they seem to never mention such fixes . I guess it dosent go with the pitch . there is a thing called biodiesel . I know its not the big fix but its going to take a multi pronged approach
Look at how clean lake constance is ... they got that to work, internationally 😉
Maybe more fuel for the space and production of the robots, then a complete AI empire?
Dang... ain't that about right
Yep AI and we’ll be pumped with dopamine directly to our brains and high fructose corn syrup injected in to the blood steam for easy access
I read about this months ago and couldn’t believe it. There maybe war over this area someday.😞
The war in East Europe is about the artic resources... it has slowed Russia progress drastically in get an uncontested foothold in that region... in the midst of the war Russia unveil new icebreakers???
@@LukeHwater 🤔
Unfortunately, I do believe there will be conflicts over the Artic's resources.
@@ufosrus ban all from accessing such resources
@@LukeHwater it hasnt slowed them down one bit at all For example the western media said that the crimea bridge will be repaire in 2023 well the part for car and trucks is fully operation already and whats fixing a few kilomters of rail done in a week or two.
Protective measures need to be in place, protecting the planet is paramount not humans
Common sense is that once military bases are made there we know what it will do to the area.
Americans have been drilling for oil in Alaska for several decades. It transports crude oil through pipelines that cross Alaska from north to south. I know this for sure, I read it in the American magazine National Geographic. It was an article about caribou migration and how the pipeline route obstructs the animals' path. DW should inform itself better and stop misinforming.
Together we can overcome it. Now look back & see what we've learnt. Fair to say that together we can also totally destroy it, thus creating another unwanted ecological challenge compounded by another.
But they won't ever see that!
This is very touching, but if western liberalized countries are on the forefront of the artic rush what chance do we have to stop this? Besides, I've always heard that change is good ;)
Seeing how Russia is the only one building military bases there, I would say they are the ones leading the push, not western countries
We'd better prepare. The artic will melt, and sea levels will rise. Eventually it will freeze again, but for now, it seems unstoppable.
Its about polluting and destroying earth, not only warming
The oil and gas resources in the Arctic are safe as present predictions of the ice melting are as likely to happen as those made in the past. "The North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming,” Al Gore 2009
People never stop to consume, we will always need more and more and more. Growing population wouldn't stop even if we reach 15-20billion around the whole world. Every in the world want to have standards of living as rich nations. So we we will drill Oil as long as human kind will live on planet. There is nothing wrong with people, we just most disruptive animals in whole history(basically that is why we survive). p.s. we are entering into the new era of global wars around the world, Ukraine-russia war - its just beginning of this process
Ice is really getting smaller, and mining technologies are getting better. Someday these two curves will intersect and people will start extracting resources in the Arctic
@@DedHobbit I love it when someone is an optimist.
Long term investment in the response to the aftermath of climate change, even in the face of it, suggests our fate, at least the fate of coastal regions, has been determined.
No our fate
It will be too expensive and time consuming to drill for oil and gas in the Artic and the risks involved are too high
Until the price of oil goes UP.
@@craigb8228 we'll be gone probally
Since 2016 Norway - Western Europe's largest oil producer - has granted a number of licences to explore for oil and gas in the Barents Sea, inside the Arctic Circle
Interesting, but nothing new. DW doesn't define what it means with the word 'arctic'. The arctic area is defined is several ways; (1) areas north of the polar circle - which leave many 'cold areas' outside the defined area, (2) areas where trees doesn' grow, and (3) areas where the mean summer temperature is below 10degC. Following (2) and (3) the arctic area will, in the foreseeable future, get smaller and smaller, - and eventually disappear (?). The polar circle also varies a bit - but that is for other reasons than climate. So why not plan for what seems to happen (regardless what we do). We could get another Maunder minimum - that gave us 'The Little Ice Age, But will it have the same effect as it had in the pre-industrial period of 1645 to 1715, - when the number of people - with modest 'climate consumption' - was just a fraction of what we have today.
What about Finland? 1/3rd of Finland's land mass is above the artic circle.
look at map, norway encirkles the artic above sweden and finland
@@fahadhanssen_6456 Well we could make a little loop with the circle around Finland so we can get it
It is no surprise to me that these are the end times.
So the latest iPhone is out and we still don't have a video of a full footage across the artic? Fed up with the CGI images when I'm told there is ISS out there!
**Arctic is melting, can cause sea levels to rise and cause severe flooding and climate change** America: I sleep **Oil in Arctic** America: _R E A L S H * T ?_
Some countries are literally trying to reclaim land to expand waters.
According to the sea floor topography Canada’s continental shelf extends up to the North Pole region and by international laws a countries territorial waters extend 1000km’s off its continental shelf.
well it sure isn't the USA 🇺🇸 territory ( Mexico/ucaten ponisla and golf and cuba/island's are more USA 🇺🇸 grounds than the frozen northern earth or Alaska as that more Canada's or Russian ethnicity ) aka get out your making it diplomatically harder for really no reason and vary little gain yes i can see Canada 🇨🇦 and USSR's and Scandinavian clams but really really it's mostly USSR's ground push comes to shove as they have been there first/longest culture/ethnicity living there otherwise yah game on for Canada 🇨🇦 vs USSR for the final board's
International laws can change...
canada has a population of 38 mil ppl, America has a population of 360 mil ppl, OK. Plus we have nukes.
@@richardprice5978 you really think the US would just give up raw materials for FREE? and with Russia involved, they will take as much as they can just so Russia gets less lol
@@Joker-no1uh land isn't free either takes a army and civilian's to defend it as for oil exploration or gold fishing ect USSR company's haven't been/seen profitably as it's -20f aka hard to getting on sight let alone digging it out then add logistics which if you're the lower 48 🇺🇸 now means going through Canada 🇨🇦 or USSR do really think there going to be okay with that arrangement no that's why the Panama 🇵🇦 existence is to day as it was held by arginta/brisale aka the USA 🇺🇸 1/2-way stole it to dig the water way's pissing off locals also probably why they took it back by violent forces, even though i and others see the canal-zone as a national natural borders between USA 🇺🇸 and south American country's evan AK alaska is a diplomat's thorn as Canada 🇨🇦 and the USA 🇺🇸 can't see eye to eye on it and or logistics dealing with the lower 48 aka Canada and or provincial leaders get upset about the USA with things like trains 🚊moving duty free cargo or trying to force usa 🇺🇸 passengers/passport holders ( been there i know it can get tense between AK-local's and Canadan's-local's ) into there borderlands as a right a way into AK and out
Yep when i served in AK this was part of Generals presentation.
To quote the meme: It's Free Real Estate