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This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.

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An Arctic storm tore a drilling rig loose from its tow ship and forced it aground near Alaska's Kodiak Island this week.

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Just a few months ago, the rig and another began preliminary drilling of the first offshore oil wells in the Arctic.

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Shell's efforts to drill in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas have been plagued by problems.

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But that's just part of the cost of doing energy business in this new era.

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Consider drilling rig operator Transocean, which agreed to pay the U.S.government $1.4 billion this week for its part in the disastrous three-month long blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

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Meanwhile, the thirst for oil drives the mining of tar sands in Alberta and the flooding of old wells with steam or CO2 in California and Texas.

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And, of course, there's the accelerating accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from all that fossil fuel burning.

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The resulting climate change is part of what makes drilling for oil offshore in the unfreezing Arctic possible,

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just as it has opened once mythical shipping routes such as the Northwest and Northeast Passages.

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That's a positive feedback loop with negative consequences.

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Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.

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