Global warming's toll begins

[linazelle]

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Science/story?id=1407585


Dec. 15, 2005 -- NASA has just announced that for the fourth year in a row, it has recorded the hottest annual global temperatures since reliable records started in the late 1800s.

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...On land, polar bears are clumsy hunters so their existence is threatened as the Arctic keeps melting. Already, field researchers have reported disruptions in the polar bears' well-being — a growing number of females now failing to gain enough weight during the summer to be able to breed. A survey by the U.S. Mineral Management Service has recorded elevated numbers of polar bears drowning. Some have been found swimming far out in the warming Arctic sea as the sea ice pulls back farther from land and the bears try to swim to shore.

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No natural climate cycles can explain the heat. It must be caused, in large measure at least, by manmade greenhouse-gas emissions, NASA scientists said.

As for humans, new studies in the journal Nature have confirmed the World Health Organization estimates that, conservatively, 150,000 more people die each year — and five million more get sick — because manmade global warming is helping insect- and water-borne diseases to spread, especially among poorer nations.

Scientists in the tropics have reported that warming is drying forests, spurring a growing number of extinctions, and threatening even the many species of wild orchids that rely on near-constant mist in the cloud forests.

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Scientists in the Arctic have been racing to catalog hundreds of species that live under the frozen sea surface. Dr. Katrin Iken, a marine biologist from the University of Alaska who scuba dives under the Arctic ice looking for new life forms, said the warming "will definitely create a huge change in the ecosystem here in the Arctic. It makes me very sad, actually."

Around the planet, hundreds of scientists report ecosystems scattering as species try to reach cooler ground. Harvard's E.O. Wilson, who has been gauging the human impact on Earth's species for more than half a century, asks: "Do we want to destroy the Creation? That's the question. That's what we're doing, and at an accelerating rate."

At this winter's worldwide global-warming conference in Montreal, the U.S. came under a great deal of criticism from almost all the other countries for refusing to participate in any formal discussions about how to try to cut greenhouse emissions, and how to try to slow the warming that has already started to disrupt so much life around the world.

[Inland]

1. It's five minutes past midnight. nt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Yep

we're screwed

[mainegreen]

5. Can the clock go past midnight?

Wouldn't we all be dead? :7

[Deep13]

8. In Poe's Masque of the Red Death ...

... the big clock keeps chiming after everyone is dead.

[linazelle]

9. kick

[Karmadillo]

2. Another issue for the Opposition Party? Oh. Wait.

Siding with the environmental crazies would cause them to lose control of the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, and most state governments. Must continue to side with the Destroyers until the time is right to raise one's voice.

[stepnw1f]

6. That's a Real F*n Stupid Tactic

That's why we are in this mess. Idiots play along with the powers to be. I understand political manuevering, but helloooooo? The planet is dying and we all live on that planet.

Think Easter Island. Yes mankind is dumb enough to kill itself.

[Clara T]

4. And on the same page

World's fastest most expensive Car Hits the Market


Dec. 14, 2005 — When your car costs more than $1.2 million, travels over 230 mph, and hits 62 mph in 2.5 seconds, you do not sit in a passenger cabin — you sit in a "survival cell."

The "survival cell" is the heart of the Bugatti Veyron, billed as the world's fastest, most expensive and most exclusive factory-built car. It will arrive in the United States beginning early next year.

The Veyron is a short, curvy two-seater with massive power. Its 1,001 horsepower engine has four turbochargers. The car's features sound like those on a jet: diffuser flaps, air-intake scoops, a tail wing that acts like an airbrake and 1.7 miles of cable to power onboard electronics.

Bugatti, owned by Volkswagen, can only produce one Veyron per week in its newly built factory in France, and will only produce the two-tone vehicle when one is ordered. The company will also stop when it hits 300 orders.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Moms/story?id=1406161

Sadly I'm afraid too many, far too many, long for the car and care not for the bears.

Rec'd

[Deep13]

7. Four Horsemen: pestilence, war, famine and death--all from the environment

6:1 I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see!"

6:2 And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.

6:3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!"

6:4 Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

6:5 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come and see!" And behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

6:6 I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don't damage the oil and the wine!"

6:7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"

6:8 And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

Revelations asv