On the Move to Outrun Climate Change - On the Move to Outrun Climate Change

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On the Move to Outrun Climate Change
Self-Preservation Forcing Wild Species, business,planning officials to act
By Blaine Harden and Juliet Eilperin
On the Move to Outrun Climate Change Staff Writers
Sunday, November 26, 2006; Page A03

SEATTLE -- "As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move.

In their separate ways, wild creatures, business executives and regional planners are responding to climate changes that are rapidly recalibrating their chances for survival, for profit and for effective delivery of public services.

Butterflies are voting with their wings, abandoning southern Europe and flying north to the more amenable climes of Finland. Ski-lift operators in the West are lobbying for leases on federal land higher up in the Rockies, trying to outclimb snowlines that creep steadily upward.

Polar bears along Hudson Bay are losing weight and declining in number as the ice shelf melts and their feeding season shrinks. Power planners in the Pacific Northwest, which gets three-quarters of its electricity from hydroelectric dams, are meeting in brainstorming sessions and making contingency plans for early snow melts, increased wintertime rainfall, lower summertime river flows and electricity shortfalls during hotter, drier summers.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/AR2006112500877.html

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1. the greed of the very few will do us all in. what a shame.

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2. Fascinating article, thanks for posting. As I look out on the snow

here, just 2 miles from the central coast of Oregon (where it doesn't snow), I wonder if nature is screwing with man as much as man is screwing with nature. Paybacks are a bitch.