the Canaries are shrieking - "Look Out!"

[donsu]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040517/sc_nm/environment_canada_arctic_dc

Arctic Temperatures Warming Rapidly-

Summer temperatures in the Arctic have risen at an incredible rate over the past three years and large patches of what should be ice are now open water, a British polar explorer said on Monday.

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"It's obvious to me that things are changing a lot and changing very quickly," a sunburned Saunders told Reuters less than two days after being rescued from the thinning ice sheet close to the North Pole.

"I do know it's happening because that was my third time in the Arctic (in the last three years)," said Saunders, who explored the region in 2001 and 2003.

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Saunders said he had also been struck by the almost complete absence of polar bears on the Russian side.

"That surprised me a lot ... that's historically been a very concentrated area for bears," he said.

"Whereas in 2001 we were attacked by a bear on day two (of the trek) and saw bear tracks nearly every day for the first three weeks, this year I saw four sets of tracks during the entire expedition."
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tick, tick, tick

as we foolish sit and watch the environment crumble and the world die

[Bandit]

1. How Republicans say Fuck You to the world......

"Trust Us"

[Cleita]

2. Good article.

In my own little world, we have had three years drought now with hardly any meaningful rainfall. I hope a new El Nino will reverse this. At this time of year, the skies are supposed to be overcast and the air moist. It's been too sunny and hot for this time of year. If the snowpacks are melting, not only in the artic, but in places like the high Andes and the Himalayas we are in trouble.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. you know, I read that headline twice as "canadians"

time for a break from DU methinks...

[No2W2004]

4. But, dear leader sez

There is no proof of global warming....

Shrub...2nd Biggest Douche in the Universe