Rising temperatures are melting the Arctic glaciers

[dArKeR]

THE OBSERVER , SVALBARD, NORWAY
Monday, Jul 18, 2005,Page 7

These are unusual times for Ny-Alesund, the world's most northerly community. Perched high above the Arctic Circle, on Svalbard, normally a place gripped by shrieking winds and blizzards, it was caught in a heatwave a few days ago.

Temperatures soared to the highest ever recorded here, an extraordinary 19.6?C, a full degree-and-a-half above the previous record. Researchers lolled in T-shirts and soaked up the sun: a high life in the high Arctic.

It was an extraordinary vision, for this huddle of multi-colored wooden huts -- a community of different Arctic stations run by various countries and perched at the edge of a remote, glacier-rimmed fjord -- is only 966km from the North Pole.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/18/2003264032

Sorry, but this seems to be new old news. Nothing on the DU for the last two weeks.

[wli]

1. there have been a number of alarming environmental signs

First the mass deaths of starving birds and the bathtub-warm ocean water causing plankton to submerge, then the hurricanes, then the acceleration of desertification, now this.

I smell trouble.

[donsu]

2. and our congress just sits there ignoring it all

it's too late

the world's environment is crashing and we the people can only watch.

[Julius Civitatus]

3. Chimpy says we need more "research" about Global Warming

that he and his pals from Exxon are not "convinced" about it.
:sarcasm:



In the meantime, the artic is MELTING. MELTING!!!!

This is very scary, and news like this one keep surfacing on a daily basis.

[Rainscents]

4. This is NOT good news.