Study: Warming has ‘severely perturbed’ Arctic

[IDemo]

'No matter where you look ... we're seeing signs,' biologist says

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 2:43 p.m. MT, Thurs., Sept . 10, 2009

WASHINGTON - Arctic warming is affecting plants, birds, animals and insects as ice melts and the growing season changes, scientists report in a new review of the many impacts climate change is having on the far north.

"Arctic ecosystems ... have been severely perturbed," the experts wrote in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

As the global climate changes, the Arctic Circle has been warming faster than other regions and scientists have documented a series of affects on wildlife in the region.

"The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past," Eric Post, an associate professor of biology at Penn State University, said in a statement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32783365/ns/us_news-environment/

[PSPS]

1. "a series of affects on wildlife"

As the global climate changes, the Arctic Circle has been warming faster than other regions and scientists have documented a series of affects on wildlife in the region.

While this is, indeed, a serious matter, I stop reading when I see something like this.

[bhikkhu]

2. Why?

[Nihil]

3. Not speaking for PSPS but I suspect ...

... that it's along the lines of "If they can't be trusted to use
the English language correctly, how can they be trusted to report
the science accurately?"

:shrug:

(I feel the same way at times but ignore it at others with a muttered
comment about trends of dumbing down ...)

[Dead_Parrot]

4. But the affects ARE series! It's hugh!

:hide:

[Nihil]

5. Umm ... DP?

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[hatrack]

6. Teh Artic is screwn!!!!11!!

:evilgrin:

[joshcryer]

8. Don't think it's the scientists' fault that the editor sucks. :P

Oh crap is it "scientists," "scientist's" or "scientists'"!?! I always mess this one up. :(

[Pharaoh]

7. I am perturbed buy your

sirie is ness:party:

[imdjh]

9. Is there an actual author of this article?

I can't see a by line with a person's name. It makes me think it's generated by the random filler story program. Especially when it says stupid shit about polar bears.

[bhikkhu]

10. you may be right there

"staff and news service" sounds like an intern project.