Whatever you do... don't make her angry!

Yet another negative (as in not-so-good) positive feedback loop. (via Organic Matter)

With major companies and nations large and small adopting similar logic, the Arctic is undergoing nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Even before the polar ice began shrinking more each summer, countries were pushing into the frigid Barents Sea, lured by undersea oil and gas fields and emboldened by advances in technology. But now, as thinning ice stands to simplify construction of drilling rigs, exploration is likely to move even farther north.

Last year, scientists found tantalizing hints of oil in seabed samples just 200 miles from the North Pole. All told, one quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources lies in the Arctic, according to the United States Geological Survey.

So, essentially, the areas of the arctic being exposed because of polar ice melt brought on by anthropogenic warming are likely to be exploited for the extraction of additional fossil fuels.

As you can see from the photo above, this greatly upsets Tomoe... and I don't think anyone wants that...