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rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

Interesting points coming across here.

*-on a side note, do you think it will be the Danes exclusively that get to populate and colonise the massive thawing landmass that is Greenland?

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:20 am Post subject:

2005 Was Warmest Year On Record: NASA
By Deborah Zabarenko
Tue Jan 24, 4:03 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last year was the warmest recorded on Earth's surface, and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, U.S. space agency NASA said on Tuesday.

All five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred within the last decade, according to analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

In descending order, the years with the highest global average annual temperatures were 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004, NASA said in a statement.

"It's fair to say that it probably is the warmest since we have modern meteorological records," said Drew Shindell of the NASA institute in New York City.

"Using indirect measurements that go back farther, I think it's even fair to say that it's the warmest in the last several thousand years."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060124/sc_nm/environment_warming_dc_1

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

-and 2006 will be warmer again.
-Only to be beaten by 2007....
The earth is dying folks, we have entered a dangerous phase of great changes that have already begun to impact.

2006 off to a flying start!! lets just look at Todays news alone..
Global warming raising sea levels
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060127/ap_on_sc/rising_seas_2;_ylt=Ak93usq3ezGLzcJT3Gj0uBZrAlMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Nuclear power cannot tackle climate change
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1688034,00.html

1500 yr old coral reefs damaged by increase in hurricanes and rise in sea temperature
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060127/ap_on_re_us/gulf_coral_woes;_ylt=AvF.nKhmxSW.RbnterT.5ioPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

Freak extremely cold winter continues to freeze Europe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060127/wl_nm/weather_europe_dc;_ylt=AgrGD77_NOyH_PZNqxEOQeoPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

China's skies darkened significantly by pollution over the past 50 years
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060127/ap_on_re_as/china_haze;_ylt=AmqQMBlLcUBqVkmfKtX0tm4PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

And theres about 20 more on the main yahoo site alone, just for today, that relate to the extreme problems now hitting us due to climate change and environmental degradation/exhaustion. The signs are everywhere, constant and unrelenting now, for anyone who has eyes or can read.

khyber · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:10 am Post subject:

Arctic shipping coming soon, U.S. expert says
Thu Jun 15, 03:50 PM EST

U.S. shipping companies are showing such a keen interest in global warming that a White House adviser says Canada should develop a policy with the U.S. on shipping through the Northwest Passage.

Commercial companies are itching to use the Northwest Passage as a preferred route between the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Asia, George Newton, chairman of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, told a conference on Arctic waters on Thursday.

The route would save two weeks in travelling time, an incentive for shipping companies, which have invested $4.5 billion in tankers capable of going through ice. As well, the Polar Research Board in Washington is expected to recommend that the U.S. government buy more icebreakers.

But Newton warned in Ottawa that a lot more work needs to be done before Arctic shipping becomes commonplace.

Canada and the United States need to study the Arctic waters, to demystify them and work out how to safely navigate the treacherous waters. Canada needs an extensive infrastructure to support shipping, and consult with aboriginals and other stakeholders.

"We need search and rescue that fall on those ports," Newton said. "We need voyage repairs, we need the ability to manage traffic in an effective fashion and we need ice breakers."

And Canada's northern people need to be consulted, said John Amagoalik, known as the Father of Nunavut.

"We have to make sure that whatever happens is manageable," Amagoalik said. "We can't allow just anybody to do whatever they want up there. There has to be some sort of management regime."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/cbc/s/15062006/3/north-arctic-shipping-coming-soon-u-s-expert-says.html