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Precarious
A grounded bird Perched feet
from sheer faces, Freefalls and deadly drops Flying on jutted
thrusts of rock I suddenly feel boreal And
pseudo-alpine.
The wind rustles steadily In lower reaches of
this chasm, this monstrous ravine. Clouds puff and
duplicate In the sun's constant spread.
Mountains engage the
eye From every dimension Beyond the third Into a timeless
fourth. Time eased away In the day's anxiousness. Next is
annexed to now You are the impermanence of moment.
Ned Green wrote this beautiful poem
on the Appalachian Trail in his Journal in 1997.
On February 18,
2001, at only 26, doing what he loved most, climbing, his support on an ice ledge gave way where he fell into a deep chasm on Mt.
Washington, New Hampshire.
Editor's
Notes:
The following resources on Global Warming were posted
beginning February 22, 2002, with an article about widespread
environmental change over the Arctic. It makes sense to lessen the
amount of greenhouse gas emissions. The US government's energy policies
push for another sort of an agenda, one that adds money to their bank
accounts with no regard to the environment. However, it could benefit
everyone by reducing pollution from entering our atmosphere. One way
could be in the development of a 19th Century invention to convert processed heat into clean
electrical power. Scientists also need to discover and promote ways
for carbon sinks, absorbing carbon back from the atmosphere into the
Earth. The slash and burn raising of livestock needs to end; eating a
vegetable-based diet helps; and overcoming a fascist government that has
misinterpreted the US Constitution for power, greed, and
fear-intention-betrayal.
In summer 2000, an
international team of scientists led by Serreze released results of
a study documenting widespread environmental changes over the
Arctic.
The present state of the
'ocean conveyor belt' that transfers warm, less salty water from the
Pacific to the Atlantic as a shallow current, and returns cold, more
salty water from the Atlantic to the Pacific as a deep current
flowing further south. This flow is threatened by melting ice in the
Arctic, and disruptions off the Antarctic coast.
UPDATED - August,
2008: Scientists Astounded by Speed of
Deep Freeze It's one of the most dramatic
examples of climate change in Earth's history, and scientists now
say it happened almost entirely in one year's time. Climate chill came exactly 12,679 years ago:
study The study, of pollens, minerals
and other matter deposited in annual layers at the bottom of Lake
Meerfelder Maar in Germany, pinpointed an abrupt change in sediments
consistent with a sudden chill over just one
year.
The world's largest
frozen peat bog is thawing for the first time in 11,000 years
(since it was formed at the end of the last ice age). This bog
in western Siberia, the size of France and Germany combined, could
release "billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas."
"We do not support construction
of new nuclear reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis.
Available renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies are
faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner strategies for reducing
greenhouse emissions than nuclear power." Sign the petition:
http://nirs.org/petition2/
index.php
June 26, 2008 - Item 1 Global Warming Ð James Hansen - Tipping
Point - Congress - - James Hansen: Prosecute oil companies,
top scientist says - - Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping
Points Near - - Global Warming and Heavy Rainfall
March
20, 2008 - Item 2 Glaciers suffer record
shrinkage - - As Andean Glaciers Shrink, Water Worries
Grow - - NASA Data Shows Thickest and Oldest Arctic Ice Is
Melting
September 30, 2007 - Item 3 Arctic Thaw May Be at ÔTipping
PointÕ - - A chance to protect the Arctic Refuge forever -
- STOP Mountaintop removal mining
June 20, 2007 - Item 3 Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness Ð
Building Coalitions - - Global Warming ÔIs Three Times Faster
Than Worst PredictionsÕ - - Warming and 9/11 Related Danger
Zones - - Dems Plan to Channel Billions in Oil Subsidies to Renewable
Fuels - - Converting Waste Heat Into Power Ð GreenLiving -
SolarFest
March 27, 2006 - Item 1 Sea rise could be
'catastrophic' - - Glacial earthquakes rock Greenland - -
Studies: Polar warming speeds up
March 16, 2006 - Item 1 Climate change 'irreversible' - -
States Calculate Global Warming Pricetag - - Another Senate Attempt
for Oil Drilling in ANWR
December 21, 2005 - Item 3 Ecosystems Plunge as Carbon
Rise - - Republicans Add Alaska Oil Drilling to Defense Bill
- - How America Plotted to Stop Kyoto Deal - - Great Lakes Headed
for Catastrophic 'Ecological Collapse' - - Scientists: Greenland
Glaciers Retreating
Greenland's glaciers
have begun to race towards the ocean.. the most alarming
manifestations of climate change to date - suggest that the ice cap
is melting far more rapidly than scientists had thought, with
immense consequences for civilisation and the
planet.
"The increased intensity of these kinds
of extreme storms is very likely to be due to global warming."
Referring to the arrival of Hurricane Rita: "If this makes the
climate loonies in the States realise we've got a problem, some good
will come out of a truly awful situation."
Sir John
Lawton chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution
September 19, 2005 - Item 3 Global Warming 'Past the Point of No
Return' - - Government Email Plays in the Katrina Blame
Game - - Katrina Relief: It's Iraq Deja vu All Over Again - -
Toxic Waters 'Will Make New Orleans Unsafe for a Decade' - - Global
Warming Hits New Orleans
Glaciers once held up by a
floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now sliding off into the sea
-- and they are going fast, scientists said on Tuesday.
Two
separate studies from climate researchers and the space agency NASA
show the glaciers are flowing into Antarctica's Weddell Sea,
freed by the 2002 breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf.
Writing
in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers said
their satellite measurements suggest climate warming can lead to
rapid sea level rise.
The Arctic ice cap is shrinking that much is known with
certainty. Over the past century, the extent of the winter pack ice
in the Nordic Seas has decreased by about 25%. Last winter the
Bering Sea was effectively ice-free, which is unprecedented, and if this
big melt continues, some say the formerly ice-locked Arctic will
have open sea lanes as soon as 2015.
By 2050, the summertime ice
cap could disappear entirely.
Disaster at sea: global
warming hits UK birds By Michael McCarthy Environment
Editor 30 July 2004 Disaster at sea: global warming hits UK
birds Leading article: A disaster that should serve as a global
warning
Hundreds of thousands of Scottish seabirds have failed
to breed this summer in a wildlife catastrophe which is being linked by
scientists directly to global warming.
The massive unprecedented
collapse of nesting attempts by several seabird species in Orkney and
Shetland is likely to prove the first major impact of climate change on
Britain.
In what could be a sub-plot from the recent disaster
movie, The Day After Tomorrow, a rise in sea temperature is believed to
have led to the mysterious disappearance of a key part of the marine
food chain - the sandeel, the small fish whose great teeming shoals have
hitherto sustained larger fish, marine mammals and seabirds in their
millions.
In Orkney and Shetland, the sandeel stocks have been
shrinking for several years, and this summer they have disappeared: the
result for seabirds has been mass starvation. The figures for breeding
failure, for Shetland in particular, almost defy belief.
More
than 172,000 breeding pairs of guillemots were recorded in the islands
in the last national census, Seabird 2000, whose results were published
this year; this summer the birds have produced almost no young,
according to Peter Ellis, Shetland area manager for the Royal Society
for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
Martin Heubeck of Aberdeen
University, who has monitored Shetland seabirds for 30 years, said: "The
breeding failure of the guillemots is unprecedented in Europe." More
than 6,800 pairs of great skuas were recorded in Shetland in the same
census; this year they have produced a handful of chicks - perhaps fewer
than 10 - while the arctic skuas (1,120 pairs in the census) have failed
to produce any surviving young.
The 24,000 pairs of arctic terns,
and the 16,700 pairs of Shetland kittiwakes - small gulls - have
"probably suffered complete failure", said Mr Ellis.
In Orkney
the picture is very similar, although detailed figures are not yet
available. "It looks very bad," said the RSPB's warden on Orkney
mainland, Andy Knight. "Very few of the birds have raised any chicks at
all."
The counting and monitoring is still going on and the
figures are by no means complete: it is likely that puffins, for
example, will also have suffered massive breeding failure but because
they nest deep in burrows, this is not immediately obvious.
But
the astonishing scale of what has taken place is already clear - and the
link to climate change is being openly made by scientists. It is
believed that the microscopic plankton on which tiny sandeel larvae feed
are moving northwards as the sea water warms, leaving the baby fish with
nothing to feed on.
This is being seen in the North Sea in
particular, where the water temperature has risen by 2C in the past 20
years, and where the whole ecosystem is thought to be undergoing a
"regime shift", or a fundamental alteration in the interaction of its
component species. "Think of the North Sea as an engine, and plankton as
the fuel driving it," said Euan Dunn of the RSPB, one of the world's
leading experts on the interaction of fish and seabirds. "The fuel mix
has changed so radically in the past 20 years, as a result of climate
change, that the whole engine is now spluttering and starting to
malfunction. All of the animals in the food web above the plankton,
first the sandeels, then the larger fish like cod, and ultimately the
seabirds, are starting to be affected."
Research last year
clearly showed that the higher the temperature, the less sandeels could
maintain their population level, said Dr Dunn. "The young sandeels are
simply not surviving."
Although over-fishing of sandeels has
caused breeding failures in the past, the present situation could not be
blamed on fishing, he said. The Shetland sandeel fishery was catching so
few fish that it was closed as a precautionary measure earlier this
year. "Climate change is a far more likely explanation."
The
spectacular seabird populations of the Northern Isles have a double
importance. They are of great value scientifically, holding, for
example, the world's biggest populations of great skuas. And they are of
enormous value to Orkney and Shetland tourism, being the principal draw
for many visitors. The national and international significance of what
has happened is only just beginning to dawn on the wider political and
scientific community, but some leading figures are already taking it on
board.
"This is an incredible event," said Tony Juniper, director
of Friends of the Earth. "The catastrophe [of these] seabirds is just a
foretaste of what lies ahead.
"It shows that climate change is
happening now, [with] devastating consequences here in Britain, and it
shows that reducing the pollution causing changes to the earth's climate
should now be the global number one political priority."
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article was orriginally posted at
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=546138<
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