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Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JUNE 26, 2008 ----------- Alaska's changing landscape Houses, roads and airports buckle because the permafrost is no longer permanent. Native villages are swept out to sea because the ocean ice, which has protected them from violent storms since humans first crossed the Bering Strait, has receded offshore. And polar bears—the most visible symbols of our nation's arctic environment are drowning. In fact, since 1979, 20 % of the Arctic sea ice has melted an area twice the size of Texas. Portage glacier, a popular tourist attraction that once dominated this bay near Anchorage, has receded and is no longer visible from the visitor's center. With just a 4-degree rise in the average temperature over the last 2 decades, spruce bark beetles are thriving and the trees are dying. 4 million acres of white spruce have been wiped out so far. A 4,000-year-old culture is being wiped out by rising temperatures. The Athabascan, Aleut, Tlingit, Yup'ik and Inupiaq people's entire way of life is being threatened. "It's scary," said Oscar Kawagley, a Yup'ik Indian from Bethel, Alaska. "Cold is what makes my language, my culture, my identity. What am I going to do without cold?" Litigation firms are filing lawsuits on behalf of some Alaskan tribes, as well as others attempting to bring awareness and help to the devastation of global warming.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JUNE 23, 2008 ----------- Climate researchers predict grim future The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research has released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. They predict: Abnormally hot days and nights, along with heat waves will be more common. Cold nights are very likely to become less common. Sea ice extent is expected to continue to decrease and may even disappear in the Arctic Ocean in summer in coming decades. Rainfall on average, is likely to be less frequent but more intense. Droughts are likely to become more frequent and severe in some regions. Hurricanes will likely have increased precipitation and wind. The strongest cold-season storms in the Atlantic and Pacific are likely to produce stronger winds and higher extreme wave heights.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JUNE 20, 2008 ----------- Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, despite a cold winter. Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that the year began with ice covering a larger area than at the beginning of 2007. But now it is down to levels seen last June, at the beginning of a summer that broke records for sea ice loss. Scientists on the project say that much of the ice is so thin that it melts easily, and the Arctic may be ice-free in summer within five to 10 years. ......................... Oceans warm more quickly than suspected: study The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday. Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water, contributing to a rise in sea levels that is submerging small island nations and threatening to wreak havoc in low-lying, densely-populated delta regions around the globe. The study, published in the British journal Nature, adds to a growing scientific chorus of warnings about the pace and consequences rising oceans. ................................ GREENLAND - Extensive spruce forests used to cover the southern half of Greenland, according to a Canadian study that gives a remarkable glimpse of the icy island's green past and possible future. The work shows the impact of PAST CLIMATE WARMING ON THE MASSIVE ICE SHEET WAS MUCH GREATER than previously believed. And it "should increase concerns about its fate" as the global climate warms. The shifts happened so quickly it is "as if someone had pushed a button." There were two huge temperature spikes in the Northern Hemisphere at the end of last ice age - one 14,700 years ago associated with a 10-degree Celsius rise in temperatures over 50 years. Then icy conditions returned before another abrupt warming about 11,700 years ago. The ice core points to a "reorganization" of atmospheric circulation over one or two years in the Northern Hemisphere before each temperature spike, say the scientists. The abrupt transitions they see occurred at the end of the last ice age as the planet warmed up from extremely cold conditions. It is not clear if such sudden changes could occur in today's relatively warm climate. But the scientists say there is a "pressing" need to find out if such abrupt change could be triggered by the greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere today. If all of Greenland's ice were to melt it would raise the global sea level close to seven meters - "that's enough to submerge all of Bangladesh, the Pacific Islands and much of Florida." A second report shows how North America's climate suddenly flipped from a cold to a warm state at the end of the last ice age, with dramatic changes in atmospheric circulation in as little as a single year. RUSSIA fears climate catastrophe in Arctic - Global warming could bring “terrible destruction” in the Russian North, the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations admits. He says global warming could bring “catastrophic destruction” in the northern parts of country by 2030. The melting of the permafrost could pose a major threat against northern airports, as well as underground reservoirs of oil and gas. A warming of only one-to-two degrees will reduce the firmness of the permafrost by as much as 50 percent. He adds that already today, the thickness of the permafrost is reduced by about four centimeters per year and that the permafrost zone over the next 20 years is expected to move 80 km north. The climate change will increase the chances of flooding and that major amounts of methane might be released from the ground. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JUNE 19, 2008 ----------- Freshwater Runoff From The Greenland Ice Sheet Will More Than Double The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting much faster than previously calculated according to a scientific paper by University of Alaska A research team found that the total amount of Greenland Ice Sheet freshwater input into the North Atlantic Ocean expected from 2041 to 2100 will be more than double what is currently observed. The current East Greenland Ice Sheet freshwater flux is 257 km3 per year from both runoff and iceberg calving. This freshwater flux is estimated to reach 456 km3 well before 2100. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JUNE 16, 2008 ----------- Permafrost Threatened By Rapid Melt Of Arctic Sea Ice The rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea ice loss, according to a new study. The findings raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, and the potential consequences for sensitive ecosystems, human infrastructure, and the release of additional greenhouse gases. "Our study suggests that, if sea-ice continues to contract rapidly over the next several years, Arctic land warming and permafrost thaw are likely to accelerate," says lead author David Lawrence of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page JUNE 5, 2008 ----------- CLIMATE CHANGE IS GOD MADE!...BroJ Sun, not man, is causing Climate Change - Dr. Bruce West, with the Army Research Office, argues that "changes in the earth’s average surface temperature are directly linked to ... the short-term statistical fluctuations in the Sun’s irradiance and the longer-term solar cycles..."the Sun’s turbulent dynamics" are linked with the Earth's complex ecosystem. These connections are what is heating up the planet. "The Sun could account for as much as 69 percent of the increase in Earth’s average temperature." It's a position that puts West at odds with nearly every major scientific organization, who say that climate change is man-made. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 30, 2008 ----------- U.S. climate warming findings are grim The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) with 38 authors from the universities, national laboratories, non-governmental organizations, and federal service has released the most extensive examinations of climate impacts on U.S. ecosystems. Some of their findings are that grain and oilseed crops will mature more rapidly, but increasing temperatures will increase the risk of crop failures. Warmer winters will reduce mortality, but this will be more than offset by greater mortality in hotter summers. Hotter temperatures will also result in reduced productivity of livestock and dairy animals. Climate change will increases in the size and frequency of forest fires, insect outbreaks and tree mortality. Weeds grow more rapidly under elevated atmospheric CO2. The growing season has increased by 10 to 14 days over the last 19 years across the temperate latitudes. Species' distributions have also shifted. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 28, 2008 ----------- Artic ice cracking up The Canadian military has seen dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap. Scientists traveling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice shelves in Canada's far north. The team found a network of cracks that stretched for more than 10 miles the area's largest shelf. One of the expedition's scientists said he was astonished to see these new cracks.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 22, 2008 ----------- Warming Climate Is Seriously Changing Life On A Global Scale Changes include wastage of glaciers on all continents; melting permafrost; earlier spring river runoff; and warming of water bodies. Among living creatures inhabiting such systems, 90% of changes are consistent with warming. The effects on living things include earlier leafing of trees and plants over many regions; movements of species to higher latitudes and altitudes in the northern hemisphere; changes in bird migrations in Europe, North America and Australia; and shifting of the oceans' plankton and fish from cold- to warm-adapted communities. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 19, 2008 ----------- Hurricane season starts soon June 1 is the beginning of hurricane season. Water temperatures are already one to two degrees higher on average than usual off the coast of Africa, will likely mean more hurricanes for the coming season, scientists predict. And in the section where hurricanes most often spawn, temperatures this spring were only this warm three other times since 1950. Rarely does ocean water get cooler once summer starts. Scientists now predict 15 named storms, including 8 hurricanes. Half of those hurricanes are expected to be major, meaning Category 3 or higher, and there is a 70 percent chance that at least one will hit the U.S. coast. Warm water, typically with a temperature of about 80 degrees, is the fuel for hurricanes. Off the coast of Africa, the water temperature is already between 75 and 80 degrees. Off Florida's Gulf Coast, water has also been warmer than usual this week, although it could be due to calm weather and pockets of shallow water. Off St. Petersburg, water temperatures have been 2 to 4 degrees above the 80-degree average for this time of year. In Fort Myers, temperatures have been similar. If that warm water continues to deepen and spread, it could be disastrous if a hurricane enters the Gulf. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth! Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 12, 2008 ----------- UNITED KINGDOM Have seasons disappeared from their weather? Temperatures in South Wales that will outstrip those in the Balearics are adding credence to the idea that spring is the new summer. The disastrous flooding last year was preceded by a spring heat wave, and with predictions of the current glorious weather being followed by an under whelming summer, it seems their expectations of seasons might have to be reassessed. Temperatures in Cardiff are forecast to hit highs of 24C on Saturday and Sunday, compared to a rainy 21C in Palma, Majorca. The glorious start to May follows on from a similar spell in April of last year. February produced early primroses and daffodils and sightings of frogspawn, bats, bumblebees and skylarks, leaving them to ponder whether global warming is seeing the seasons change earlier every year. But, of course, last year’s warm spring was followed by a disastrous summer, with widespread flooding and cool temperatures. BBC Radio 2's gardening expert believes all seasonality has effectively disappeared from their weather. He said: “April was very cold and fairly dry and then we’ve hit the beginning of May and we’ve turned from cold to extreme baking weather like a desert. There’s no seasonality whatsoever now. Back in the 50s and 60s you knew come mid-September you’d get your first frost and everything was finished off. Then you’d get winter with snow and frost and come February it would start to warm up. By April it would be slightly warm with rain and May to August would be the four-month growing season. But we’re definitely not getting that now.” The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 8, 2008 ----------- GLOBAL warming could have the same economic effect as the Great Depression GLOBAL warming could have the same economic effect as the Great Depression if handled poorly, the Government's top climate change adviser says. Professor Ross Garnaut has written an article saying that poor design or slowness in implementing climate change-easing policies could spell the end of what he calls the Platinum Age. The economist's article, published in the Australian National University's biannual Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, says the shock of unexpectedly large climate change impacts on fragile political systems could bring about sharp downturns in economies. The effects of the 1890s depression in eastern Australia, the global Great Depression of the 1930s and the financial crisis in Indonesia in 1997 were examples of what could happen if climate change impacts hit hard, he said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 7, 2008 ----------- Global Warming heats Up World's Largest Freshwater Lake This well-known landmark, Shaman Rock on Lake Baikal in Russia, stands guard over an ancient lake whose pristine condition is changing quickly. Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming. Warming of this isolated but enormous lake is a clear signal that climate change has affected even the most remote corners of our planet. "The conclusions shown here for this enormous body of freshwater result from careful and repeated sampling over six decades," said Henry Gholz, program director for NCEAS at the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funded the research. "Thanks to the dedication of local scientists, who were also keen observers, coupled with modern synthetic approaches, we can now visualize and appreciate the far-reaching changes occurring in this lake." The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page MAY 6, 2008 ----------- Major Arctic sea ice melt this summer The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday. "The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing. Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute to global warming. But while solar radiation and amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are similar at the poles, to date the regions have responded differently, with little change in the South, explained oceanographer James Overland of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page APRIL 30, 2008 ----------- Health damage from climate change has already started We've already had several sneak previews of how climate change is going to be bad for our health. From mosquito-borne diseases that jump from cows to people in East Africa, to a heatwave that killed thousands of elderly Europeans, to malaria starting to appear in the highlands of Rwanda and Swaziland in abnormally hot summers. And outbreaks of cholera as more floods hit coastal communities with poor sanitation, mixing sewage with drinking water supplies amid fetid heat. .............................................................................................. Hurricane forecaster's dispute with school focuses on global warming debate As he enters his 25th year of predicting hurricane season activity, Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries related to Wiiliam Gray's forecasting requires too much time and detracts from efforts to promote other professors' work. But Gray, a highly visible and sometimes acerbic skeptic of climate change, says that's a "flimsy excuse" for the real motivation — a desire to push him aside because of his global warming criticism The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page APRIL 24, 2008 ----------- WWF warns Arctic ice melting faster than predicted Arctic sea ice is melting "significantly faster" than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned in a new study released Wednesday. The volumes of the Greenland Ice Sheet and ice in the Arctic Ocean were estimated at 2.9 million and 4.4 million cubic meters respectively in September 2007 -- the lowest ever levels recorded, the organization said. The sea ice shrank to 39 percent below its 1979-2000 mean volume, it said. ....................... New Zealand's largest glacier will disappear: scientists New Zealand's largest glacier is shrinking fast due to climate change and will eventually disappear altogether, scientists said Thursday. The 23-kilometre (14.3 mile) long glacier in the South Island's Southern Alps is likely to shrink at a rate of between 500 and 820 meters a year, said Martin Brook, a physical geography lecturer at Massey University. "In the last 10 years the glacier has receded a hell of a lot," Brook said on the university website. "It's just too warm for a glacier to be sustained at such a low altitude -- 730 meters above sea level -- so it melts rapidly and it is going to disappear altogether." The rapid melting has seen a lake seven kilometers long and two kilometers wide form at the base of the glacier. Thirty-five years ago, the lake did not exist. "The last major survey was in the 1990s and since then the glacier has retreated back 180 meters a year on average," Brook said. The lake at the foot of the glacier is speeding up the melting as more ice is submerged under the surface of the water. A study last year by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research found the volume of ice in the Southern Alps had shrunk almost 11 percent in the past 30 years. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page APRIL 22, 2008 ----------- Freshening - warming of deep Antarctic waters worries experts Scientists studying the icy depths of the sea around Antarctica have detected changes in salinity that could have profound effects on the world's climate and ocean currents. The scientists returned to the southern Australian city of Hobart after a one-month voyage studying the Southern Ocean to see how it is changing and what those changes might mean for global climate patterns. Voyage leader Steve Rintoul said his team found that salty, dense water that sinks near the edge of Antarctica to the bottom of the ocean about 5 km (3 miles) down was becoming fresher and more buoyant. So-called Antarctic bottom water helps power the great ocean conveyor belt, a system of currents spanning the Southern, Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans that shifts heat around the globe. .................................. France warns climate change driving war, hunger French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the world's biggest carbon polluters on Friday that global warming was becoming a driver of hunger, unrest and conflict, with the war in Darfur a concrete example. "Climate change is already having a considerable impact on security," Sarkozy said in a speech to ministers from 16 economies that together account for 80 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions. Water scarcity and rivalry for farmland and fishing resources were emerging as "major challenges," especially in Africa, he said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page APRIL 15, 2008 ----------- Rapidly Melting Mountain Snow and Glaciers a "time bomb" for water shortages Glaciers and mountain snow are melting earlier in the year than usual, meaning the water has already gone when millions of people need it during the summer when rainfall is lower, scientists warned. Those areas most at risk from a lack of water for drinking and agriculture include parts of the Middle East, southern Africa, the United States, South America and the Mediterranean.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page APRIL 1, 2008 ----------- The Big Melt: Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years Austria's glaciers retreated more than 22 meters (24 yards) on average last year, in the biggest shrinking for five years, the country's Alpine Club said Saturday. "All glaciers experienced melting and retreated... an average of 22.2 meters" in the 2006-2007 period, the Alpine Club said, citing measurements of 93 glaciers by its specialists who blamed milder than normal temperatures. The record was on the Weisssee Ferner glacier in the Oetztal range of southwest Austria, which shrank 96.5 meters, while two more glaciers in the south retreated by 87 and 84 meters respectively. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page March 31, 2008 ----------- We're all doomed! and there's NOTHING we can do about it, says climate change expert According to the climate change scientist James Lovelock, this is the beginning of the end of a peaceful phase in evolution. By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. The people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain. We will, he says, have to set up encampments in this country, like those established for the hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the conflict in East Africa. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page March 27, 2008 ----------- Big chunk of Antarctic ice shelf falling apart Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun disintegrating under the effects of global warming, satellite images by the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center showed. ............................... Antarctic shelf 'hangs by thread' - A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of Man (seven times the size of Manhattan Island) has started to break away from Antarctica in what scientists say is further evidence of a warming climate. Satellite images suggest that part of the ice shelf is disintegrating, and will soon crumble away. The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been stable for most of the last century, but began retreating in the 1990s. Six ice shelves in the same part of the continent have already been lost. "Wilkins is the largest ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula yet to be threatened. I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly." One researcher said he had never seen anything like it before. "We flew along the main crack and observed the sheer scale of movement from the breakage. Big hefty chunks of ice, the size of small houses, look as though they've been thrown around like rubble - it's like an explosion." Since an ice shelf is a floating platform of ice, the break-up will have no impact on sea level. But scientists say it heightens concerns over the impact of climate change on this part of Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula, which juts out into the Southern Ocean towards the tip of South America, has experienced UNPRECEDENTED warming over the last 50 years. Antarctica's summer melt season is drawing to a close. "This UNUSUAL show is over for this season. But come January, we'll be watching to see if the Wilkins continues to fall apart." .............................. Global Warming Threatens Lake Tahoe RENO, Nev. -- A new study predicts water circulation in Lake Tahoe is being dramatically altered by global warming, threatening the lake's delicate ecosystem and famed clear waters. The University of California, Davis study said one likely consequence is warmer lake temperatures that will mean fewer cold-water native fish and more invasive species _ like carp, large-mouth bass and bluegill. "What we expect is that deep mixing of Lake Tahoe's water layers will become less frequent, even nonexistent, depleting the bottom waters of oxygen," said Geoffrey Schladow, director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at U.S. Davis. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page March 17, 2008 ----------- 'Glaciers disappearing at RECORD RATE' A thaw of the world's glaciers has accelerated to A NEW RECORD with some of the biggest losses within Europe, in a worrying sign of climate change. Data from close to 30 reference glaciers in nine mountain ranges indicate that between the years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 the average rate of melting and thinning more than doubled. Some of the biggest losses were in Europe - in the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Nordic region. "The latest figures are part of what appears to be an accelerating trend with no apparent end in sight." The estimate indicated an average loss of about 1.5 meters in 2006, up from just over half a meter in 2005. The thinning was THE FASTEST SINCE MONITORING BEGAN. Since 1980, glaciers have thinned by about 11.5 meters. The thaw could disrupt everything from farming and power generation to winter sports. The thaw could also raise world sea levels. ............................... Glaciers melt 'at fastest rate in past 5,000 years' The world's glaciers are melting faster than at any time since records began, threatening catastrophe for hundreds of millions of people and their eco-systems. The details are revealed in the latest report from the World Glacier Monitoring Service and will add to growing alarm about the rise in sea levels and increased instances of flooding, avalanches and drought. Based on historical records and other evidence, the rate at which the glaciers are melting is also thought to be faster that at any time in the past 5,000 years, said Professor Wilfried Haeberli, director of the monitoring service. 'There's no absolute proof, but nevertheless the evidence is strong: this is really extraordinary.' Experts have been monitoring 30 glaciers around the world for nearly three decades and the most recent figures, for 2006, show the biggest ever 'net loss' of ice. Achim Steiner, head of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), told The Observer that melting glaciers were now the 'loudest and clearest' warning signal of global warming. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page March 14, 2008 ----------- EGYPT: Contingency planning for rising sea levels The rise in sea levels due to global warming threatens Egypt's densely populated coastal strip and could have grave consequences for the country's economy, agriculture and industry. Combined with growing demographic pressures, a rise in sea levels could turn millions of Egyptians into environmental refugees by the end of the century, according to climate experts. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page March 11, 2008 ----------- Could Arctic ice melt spawn new kind of cold war? With oil above $100 a barrel and Arctic ice melting faster than ever, some of the world's most powerful countries -- including the United States and Russia -- are looking north to a possible energy bonanza. This prospective scramble for buried Arctic mineral wealth made more accessible by freshly melted seas could bring on a completely different kind of cold war, a scholar and former Coast Guard officer says. While a U.S. government official questioned the risk of polar conflict, Washington still would like to join a 25-year-old international treaty meant to figure out who owns the rights to the oceans, including the Arctic Ocean. So far, the Senate has not approved it. Unlike the first Cold War, dominated by tensions between the two late-20th century superpowers, this century's model could pit countries that border the Arctic Ocean against each other to claim mineral rights. The Arctic powers include the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark and Norway. The irony is that the burning of fossil fuels is at least in part responsible for the Arctic melt -- due to climate change -- and the Arctic melt could pave the way for a 21st century rush to exploit even more fossil fuels. The stakes are enormous, according to Scott Borgerson of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant commander. The Arctic could hold as much as one-quarter of the world's remaining undiscovered oil and gas deposits, Borgerson wrote in the current issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. Russia has claimed 460,000 square miles (1.191 million sq km) of Arctic waters, with an eye-catching effort that included planting its flag on the ocean floor at the North Pole last summer. Days later, Moscow sent strategic bomber flights over the Arctic for the first time since the Cold War. "I think you can say planting a flag on the sea bottom and renewing strategic bomber flights is provocative," Borgerson said in a telephone interview. ................................. EU told to prepare for flood of climate change migrants Global warming threatens to severely destabilize the planet, rendering a fifth of its population homeless, top officials say According to the EU's two senior foreign policy officials, Europe needs to brace itself for a new wave of migration with a very different cause - global warming. The ravages already being inflicted on parts of the developing world by climate change are engendering a new type of refugee, the "environmental migrant". Within a decade "there will be millions of environmental migrants, with climate change as one of the major drivers of this phenomenon," predict Javier Solana and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU's chief foreign policy coordinator and the European commissioner for external relations. "Europe must expect substantially increased migratory pressure." They point out that some countries already badly hit by global warming are demanding that the new phenomenon be recognised internationally as a valid reason for migration. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page February 26, 2008 ----------- The Big Melt: Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean The UK work is discovering just how fast the ice is moving UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica. If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level. The new evidence comes from a group of glaciers covering an area the size of Texas, in a remote and seldom visited part of West Antarctica. The "rivers of ice" have surged sharply in speed towards the ocean. David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey, explained: "It has been called the weak underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and the reason for that is that this is the area where the bed beneath the ice sheet dips down steepest towards the interior. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page February 25, 2008 ----------- Greenland's Rising Air Temperatures Drive Ice Loss At Surface And Beyond The paired surface temperature and gravity data confirm a strong connection between melting on ice sheet surfaces in areas below 6,500 feet in elevation, and ice loss throughout the ice sheet's giant mass. The result led Hall's team to conclude that the start of surface melting triggers mass loss of ice over large areas of the ice sheet.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page February 13, 2008 ----------- Climate warming threatens Antarctic king penguins King penguins that feed on fish and squid at the northern edges of Antarctica are threatened by global warming, which is cutting down on their food supply, researchers reported on Monday. King penguins, the second-largest species after emperor penguins, are at the top of the food chain in their sub-Antarctic environment, thriving on small fish and squid rather than the tiny krill and other crustaceans that sea mammals favor. This makes king penguins good indicators of changes in their ecosystem, scientists said in research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page February 11, 2008 ----------- Biofuels make climate change worse Scientists have produced damning evidence to suggest that BIOFUELS COULD BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL CON-TRICKS because they actually make global warming worse by adding to the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide that they are supposed to curb. Two separate studies show that a range of biofuel crops now being grown to produce "green" alternatives to oil-based fossil fuels release far more carbon dioxide into the air than can be absorbed by the growing plants. Studies looked at how much carbon dioxide is released when a piece of land is converted into a biofuel crop. They found that when peat lands in Indonesia are converted into palm-oil plantations, for instance, it would take 423 years to pay off the carbon debt. "In finding solutions to climate change, we must ensure that the cure is not worse than the disease." Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page February 4, 2008 ----------- Scientists see looming water crisis in western US A water supply crisis is looming in the western United States thanks to human-caused climate change that already has altered the region's river flows, snow pack and air temperatures, scientists said. Trends over the past half century foreshadow a worsening decline in water, perhaps the region's most valuable natural resource, even as population and demand expands in western states, researchers led by a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography wrote in the journal Science. Up to 60 percent of changes in three key factors affecting the West's water cycle -- river flow, winter air temperatures and snow pack -- are due to human-caused climate change, they determined using multiple computer models and data analysis. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 31, 2008 ----------- Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink By 50 Percent Since 1950's Ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by 50 percent in recent decades as a result of warming temperatures. A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 28, 2008 ----------- Benin's Cotonou - a city slowly swallowed by rising seas Huge breakers constantly battering Benin's coast -- and the rest of the shoreline on the Gulf of Guinea -- are starting to take their toll. Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Nigeria are also fighting to stop the sea from gulping up chunks of land. ............................. Creepy-crawlies head to Europe thanks to globalization, climate Europe now has 1,517 alien species of insects, worms, mussels and other invertebrates, a tally that is growing steadily thanks to globalization and climate change, French researchers said on Friday. The numbers "have increased markedly in recent years," the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (Inra) said in a press release. From 2000-2007, on average 19 "exotic" species established themselves in Europe each year, compared with only 10 each year between 1950 and 1975, it said. Asia, followed at a distance by North America, is the major source for these alien species. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 25, 2008 ----------- Climate change worse than feared, says Al Gore CLIMATE change is occurring far more rapidly than even the worst predictions of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, climate campaigner and former US vice-president Al Gore said. Recent evidence shows "the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us," Mr Gore said. There are now forecasts that the North Pole ice caps may disappear entirely during summer months within five years, he told a gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a massive report the size of three phone books on the reality and risks of climate change, its 4th assessment in 18 years. Global warming is a key theme at this year's meeting of the world's business and political elite in Davos.
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 17, 2008 ----------- Ice loss from Antarctica is accelerating, warns study Global warming has caused annual ice loss from the Antarctic ice sheet to surge by 75 percent in a decade, according to the most detailed survey ever made of the white continent's coastal glaciers. In 2006, accelerating glaciers spewed an estimated 192 billion tonnes of Antarctic ice into the sea, scientists calculate. The West Antarctica ice sheet lost some 132 billion tonnes, while the Antarctic Peninsula, the tongue of land that juts up towards South America, lost around 60 million tonnes. But there was a "near-zero" loss in East Antarctica, the world's biggest icesheet, the paper says. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page January 4, 2008 ----------- Shifting heat layers above Arctic to blame for ice crisis: study The dramatic loss of the Arctic ice cap may have been triggered by disruption to the thermal layers of atmosphere stacked over Earth's far north, according to Swedish research to be published Thursday. The study, published in Nature, offers a new explanation for the rise in the Arctic's surface temperature, which over the past century has been nearly two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), or twice the global average. Until now, the big suspect in "Arctic amplification" has been reflectivity of sunlight. When the Sun's rays hit snow or ice, most of that solar energy bounces back into space -- but as those melting surfaces give way to dark-blue sea, the heat is absorbed instead. This self-reinforcing process, called a feedback, is an established factor in accelerating warming in snow and ice. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 28, 2007 ----------- Experts: Melting sea ice threatens walruses, seals, bears Federal marine mammal experts in Alaska studying the effects of global warming on walruses, polar bears and ice seals warn there are limits to the protections they can provide. Anatoly Kochnev, who conducts walrus research for Russia's Pacific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, said this year's loss of 3,000 to 4,000 animals, most of them from the same population, could be disastrous. If current ice trends continue, and walruses have to stay on coastlines every summer, they may put too much pressure on nearby foraging areas instead of feeding in the waters offshore, said U.S. Geological Survey biologist Tony Fischbach. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 24-25, 2007 ----------- Global warming causing China's glaciers to melt quickly: survey Global warming has caused some of China's glaciers -- a source for many of Asia's greatest rivers -- to have melted by more than 18 percent over the past five years, state media reported Friday. A survey of nearly 20,000 square kilometers (8,000 square miles) of China's glaciers showed they were on average 7.4 percent smaller than five years ago, Caijing magazine said, citing a government-funded survey. A glacier along the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River on the Tibetan plateau had shrunk by more than 18 percent, the survey found. Two other glacial areas in China's far northwest Xinjiang region had also melted by more than 18 percent. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 19, 2007 ----------- Seas could rise twice as high as predicted: study The world's sea levels could rise twice as high this century as U.N. climate scientists have predicted, according to researchers who looked at what happened more than 100,000 years ago, the last time Earth got this hot. Experts working on the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have suggested a maximum 21st century sea level rise -- a key effect of global climate change -- of about 32 inches. But researchers said in a study appearing on Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience that the maximum could be twice that, or 64 inches. They made the estimate by looking at the so-called interglacial period, some 124,000 to 119,000 years ago, when Earth's climate was warmer than it is now due to a different configuration of the planet's orbit around the sun. That was the last time sea levels reached up to 20 feet (6 meters) above where they are now, fueled by the melting of the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica. The researchers say their study is the first robust documentation of how quickly sea levels rose to that level. "Until now, there have been no data that sufficiently constrain the full rate of past sea level rises above the present level," lead author Eelco Rohling of Britain's National Oceanography Centre said in a statement. Rohling and his colleagues found an average sea level rise of 64 inches each century during the interglacial period. Back then, Greenland was 5.4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than now -- which is similar to the warming period expected in the next 50 to 100 years, Rohling said. Current models of ice sheet activity do not predict rates of change this large, but they do not include many of the dynamic processes already being observed by glaciologists, the statement said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 18, 2007 ----------- Global Warming Blamed for Walrus Deaths ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers. The deaths took place during the late summer and fall on the Russian side of the Bering Strait, which separates Alaska from Russia. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 14, 2007 ----------- Prophecy given Sunday December 9, 2007... I am seeing a vision somewhere in either the northwestern part of the United States or the central western part of the United States… mid west? There is magma forming below the ground. A rather large amount of it, trying to rise. ***WATCHMAN... YES! I realize this is not the USA in the VISION posted above that I spoke in the name of The Lord -BUT- think - if it is happening "UNDER ICE" what MIGHT be happening "UNDER AMERICA"??? ....BroJ Earth's Heat Adds To Climate Change To Melt Greenland Ice Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice. They have found at least one "hotspot" in the northeast corner of Greenland -- just below a site where an ice stream was recently discovered. The researchers don't yet know how warm the hotspot is. But if it is warm enough to melt the ice above it even a little, it could be lubricating the base of the ice sheet and enabling the ice to slide more rapidly out to sea. ................................. As ice thins, so does Canada's polar bear population Polar bears in Canada's Hudson Bay area are battling for survival, as climate change reduces the time they can hunt for food, warn environmentalists and locals in Churchill, the self-proclaimed polar capital of the world. "For many years, there were 1,600 to 2,200 of our polar bears, called the western Hudson Bay sub-population," Bonnie Chartier, a Churchill native who works as a guide for tour groups who come to this northern town to spot the world's largest bear, told AFP. "Now they're saying there are about 965. Boom! In a very short span of time, we have a much smaller population and this has been attributed to global warming," she said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 14, 2007 ----------- Arctic ice melting at record rate ARCTIC ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the northern hemisphere summer, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists say. "In 2007, we had off the charts warming," Michael Steele, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, said at the 2007 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where 15,000 researchers have gathered to discuss earthquakes, water resources, and climate change. It was an ominous summer for the Arctic region, where for the first time in recorded history, ships sailed across the Arctic Ocean in water that had been part of the polar icecap, said Donald Perovich of the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in New Hampshire. In the northern summer of 1980 the North Pole was covered by an ice sheet about the size of the continental United States, but this summer the ice would not have covered the states west of the Mississippi River, he said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 13, 2007 ----------- Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even mspeculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years. Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years earlier, according to new NASA satellite data obtained. "The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo. Just last year, two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it could disappear entirely by the summer of 2040. .................................. Penguins feel the heat of climate change ANTARCTICA'S penguin population has slumped because of global warming as melting ice has destroyed nesting sites and reduced their sources of food, a WWF report says. The Antarctic peninsula was warming five times faster than the average in the rest of the world, affecting four penguin species - the emperor penguin, the largest and the grandest in the world, the gentoo, chinstrap and adelie, the report said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
Archived from NEWS+VIEWS page December 5, 2007 ----------- Call for action to save Himalayan glaciers As industrial powers debate global warming, some of the greatest concern lies in the remote Himalayas where melting glaciers pose catastrophic risks, experts say. The retreat of the ice causes so-called glacial lakes in the Himalayas, which are a key source of water to densely populated South Asia -- a region that already suffers deadly floods on an annual basis. "We don't have much time to avert the risks of the bursting of a glacial lake," Ken Noguchi, a Japanese alpinist who has visited the Himalayas dozens of times, told a first-of-a-kind Asian "water summit" in Beppu, Japan. In Nepal, the Imja glacial lake "was just a small puddle in the 1960s" but now has a one-kilometer (half-mile) radius with 2.9 millions tones of water, Noguchi said. The Last Days Signs - The End Times - Are Upon The Earth!
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