Signs
Signs of Global Warming in Pacific?
SAN FRANCISCO — Marine biologists are seeing mysterious and disturbing things along the Pacific Coast this year: higher water temperatures, plummeting catches of fish, lots of dead birds on the beaches, and perhaps most worrisome, very little plankton (search) — the tiny organisms that are a vital link in the ocean food chain.
Is this just one freak year? Or is this global warming?
Few scientists are willing to blame global warming (search), the theory that carbon dioxide and other manmade emissions are trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere and causing a worldwide rise in temperatures. Yet few are willing to rule it out.
"There are strange things happening, but we don't really understand how all the pieces fit together," said Jane Lubchenco, a zoologist and climate change expert at Oregon State University. "It's hard to say whether any single event is just an anomaly or a real indication of something serious happening."
posted by Indigobusiness @ Sunday, January 22, 2006
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Somehow as hyperbolic as that movie "The Day After Tomorrow" was, its prophetic message of saving mother earth and being responsible is still going unheeded. Between the polar ice caps melting at an alarming rate, the potential for oil/fossil fuels running dry within the next hundred years, a climate and economic implosion is looming two to three generations from now.
The stoppage of the Gulf Stream via desalination is something I've studied closely for a couple of decades. The ramififications are dire and swift. the climate implosion is not generations aways: we are in the early throes NOW. Every year, going forward, will see awesome climate extremes...with brutal winter impacts. The Eastern Hemisphere is experiencing its early taste of what's to come - with extreme cold in Russia and snow in Athens, Israel, etc. There was even a blizzard in Hawaii last week that happened so suddenly it trapped hikers.
We were lucky this winter, next winter we might get a sharp taste of it. We need to wake up to what this really means.
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