"Even if we grant all the globe"s average annual warming of 0.017 degrees Centigrade (C) in the last 10 years was due to increasing carbon dioxide – and that"s quite a concession – the numbers on ANWAR are a drop in the barrel" (Michaels, 2005), he points out. .

             To wit: The Energy Information Administration says that petroleum accounted for "about 42%" of the total human contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during the last ten years; that translates to oil-related warming of about 0.007 degree C annually; the yearly global consumption of oil during that period was 26.6 billion barrels; the USGS says the oil in ANWAR that the Bush Administration wishes to pump out is 10.3 billion barrels (which is enough to supply the world for about 5 months or less), or roughly 40% of the annual total of petroleum burned. .

             With us so far? Now, burn all 10.3 billion barrels of ANWAR oil and get out your calculator: 40% of .007 degree Centimeter per year adds up to "right around .003 degree C, that"s THREE THOUSANDTHS, not three or even three-tenths," says Michaels. .

             While we"re on the subject of Global Warming, new research shows the earth was warming during the Middle Ages than it is right now. According to U.K. Telegraph and Environment & Climate News, a UK newsmagazine, though environmentalists have claimed that "temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before.such claims have now been sharply contradicted by the most comprehensive study yet of global temperature over the past 1,000 years" (Matthews, 2003). A review of more than "240 scientific studies" shows, according to Matthews" story, that "today"s temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium, nor are they producing the most extreme weather.".

             Dr. Peter Gell, writing in Snowy River Mail (Gell, 2001), insists that 6,000 years ago, in the "Interglacial Maximum," the earth "was 6 degrees C warmer than it is right now.