Coincidentally, Venezuela is producing about 800,000 barrels of oil per day (on the heavy dirty side) and has a goal of increasing production to a million barre

Coincidentally, Venezuela is producing about 800,000 barrels of oil per day (on the heavy dirty side) and has a goal of increasing production to a million barrels per day. The USA (including Alaska) by comparison is currently producing 13.2 million barrels a day, a steep increase from 2008 when only 5 million bpd were being produced. A remarkable number of politicians who campaign on 'slowing climate change' have in reality (and hypocritically) directly facilitated this growth in oil production by blocking efforts to limit pipeline expansion, enforce environmental laws already on the books, and so on. As far as Venezuela glaciers, consensus appears to be that they probably had melted completely around the time of the Holocene warm period c. 9000 years ago, and their reforming was evidence of the beginning of a long slow slide into another glacial era (which would have taken 70,000 years or so to reach the next glacial maximum, on the 100 ky cycle). That's now been put aside as we head full tilt back towards Pliocene conditions.