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At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate
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By Doug Struck
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 22, 2007; Page A10
Fourth in a monthly series
For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction.
The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip of the Arctic Ocean that defied man for centuries is melting away. The sea ice reaches only half as far as it did 50 years ago. In the summer of 2006, it shrank to a record low; this summer the ice pulled back even more, by an area nearly the size of Alaska. Where explorer Robert Peary just 102 years ago saw "a great white disk stretching away apparently infinitely" from Ellesmere Island, there is often nothing now but open water. Glaciers race into the sea from the island of Greenland, beginning an inevitable rise in the oceans.
Animals are on the move. Polar bears, kings of the Arctic, now search for ice on which to hunt and bear young. Seals, walrus and fish adapted to the cold are retreating north. New species -- salmon, crabs, even crows -- are coming from the south. The Inuit, who have lived on the frozen land for millennia, are seeing their houses sink into once-frozen mud, and their hunting trails on the ice are pocked with sinkholes.
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2 things:
- I doubt that anyone who responds negatively will have actually read what this scientist has to say..
- I wonder how soon the attacks on the author, or the scientists, will come. |
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| harley-davidson |
| Not a thing to worry about, nut jobs like NCMoron leave it to corporations to decide whats bad for the earth...every things fine :rolleyes: |
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