Sunday, December 18, 2005
As The World Hots Up, Polar Bears Drown.
Seldom a week passes, it would seem, without fresh facts appearing to strengthen the masses of evidence already available proving that the world is close to being....... ahem, fucked.
Nasa reports that 2005 has been the hottest year ever recorded. The head of the National Climate Centre at the Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology says the sort of temperatures we have experienced have not been seen since prehistoric times. Top British climatologists agree. Carbon dioxide levels in the air are higher than anytime in the last hundreds of thousands of years.
Scientists in Bern, Switzerland, and Oregon in the United States analysed levels of the gas in tiny air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice during the past 650,000 years. They found current levels were 27 per cent greater than the highest level over that period.
Arctic sea ice has dropped to its smallest extent ever, and now polar bears are drowning as the ice shelf melts and they are having to swim up to sixty miles to find food. Four bear carcases were found floating in one month in a single patch of sea off the north coast of Alaska, where average summer temperatures have increased by 2-3C degrees since 1950s.
And evidence from researchers working for the World Wildlife Fund in Yakutia, on the northeast coast of Russia, has shown the region’s first evidence of cannibalism among bears competing for food supplies.
It's a pretty sad legacy we leave for our grandchildren, but to the powerful few who are still in denial, greed and profit are undoubtedly more important than what kind of world they hand down.
Nasa reports that 2005 has been the hottest year ever recorded. The head of the National Climate Centre at the Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology says the sort of temperatures we have experienced have not been seen since prehistoric times. Top British climatologists agree. Carbon dioxide levels in the air are higher than anytime in the last hundreds of thousands of years.
Scientists in Bern, Switzerland, and Oregon in the United States analysed levels of the gas in tiny air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice during the past 650,000 years. They found current levels were 27 per cent greater than the highest level over that period.
Arctic sea ice has dropped to its smallest extent ever, and now polar bears are drowning as the ice shelf melts and they are having to swim up to sixty miles to find food. Four bear carcases were found floating in one month in a single patch of sea off the north coast of Alaska, where average summer temperatures have increased by 2-3C degrees since 1950s.
And evidence from researchers working for the World Wildlife Fund in Yakutia, on the northeast coast of Russia, has shown the region’s first evidence of cannibalism among bears competing for food supplies.
It's a pretty sad legacy we leave for our grandchildren, but to the powerful few who are still in denial, greed and profit are undoubtedly more important than what kind of world they hand down.
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oops! i accidentally posted the comment for this post on the previous one. just use your imagination :)
Hi Elektrofly. Thanks for the comment and the chance to use my imagination :) Comment on your comment is at SNP proved right, if I haven't got the links wrong. Not that you can confuse me.......
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