Minimum concentration of Arctic sea ice...photo

[SoCalDem]

This NASA satellite image shows the minimum concentration of Arctic sea ice in which occurred in September 2005. Ninety top scientists in Canada pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is hostile to the Kyoto Protocol, to tackle climate change now or risk devastating consequences for the country.(AFP/NASA/File)

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Scientists urge Canada to act now to halt global warming Wed Apr 19, 3:33 PM ET



OTTAWA (AFP) - Ninety top scientists in Canada pressed Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is hostile to the Kyoto Protocol, to tackle climate change now or risk devastating consequences for the country. "We urge you and your government to develop and effective national strategy to deal with the many important aspects of climate that will affect both Canada and the world in the near future," they said in an open letter to the prime minister.

The letter was posted on the website of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. Harper said earlier this month his Conservative government would roll out its "own approaches" that will address both greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, but offered no details.

He lamented Canada had spent "billions of dollars on so-called climate change programs" yet remains far behind other countries in global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. "I know the environment minister has been working on this file, has been developing plans, but to be quite blunt about it, I think we're pretty well starting from scratch," Harper said in March.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Wow - I just read "Ninety Degrees North"

the story of the race to the North Pole. Back in 1880, the ship Jeannette was frozen in at Bennett Island, off the Siberian coast, for 2 winters and a summer. They had to abandon her, and many died trying to get to civilisation. There's about 300 miles of open water around that island in the photo.

[shadowknows69]

2. Somebody is going to have to apologize

to Kevin Costner someday soon.