Monday, September 8, 2008

Thaw of polar regions may need new U.N. laws

Oslo - A new set of United Nations laws may be needed to regulate new Arctic industries such as shipping and oil exploration as climate change melts the ice around the North Pole, legal experts said on Sunday.

They said existing laws governing everything from fish stocks to bio-prospecting by pharmaceutical companies were inadequate for the polar regions, especially the Arctic...

[One World Government; be afraid.

Meanwhile they ignore that fact that the Antarctic is gaining ice faster than the Arctic is losing it (which itself is debatable, given its year to year loss gain seesaw} - no much for 'global'.

We'll see what Russia, already 'claiming' the north pole for oil retrieval, thinks of this...]


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