Antarctic 'on the edge of disaster'

[IndianaGreen]

Do you realize how many stories about the environmental crisis in the Antarctic and the Arctic have been posted on this forum in the last month? How come our MSM remains silent on this topic?

Antarctic 'on the edge of disaster'

Even a small increase in sea temperature could dramatically affect penguins, whales and a host of other marine creatures, warns scientist

Tim Radford, science editor
Saturday December 11, 2004
The Guardian

Warmer temperatures in the Antarctic could threaten penguins, whales, seals and a host of smaller creatures, a marine biologist warns in a lecture to be given at Christmas. Lloyd Peck, of the British Antarctic Survey, argues that even a small rise in sea temperatures could have dramatic consequences.

"Antarctic animals - in the sea especially - are very sensitive to climate change and they are the early warning system for the loss of species on the planet. We should be watching for those because climate change is probably going to get rid of them before it gets rid of other species," he says.

"We know things are changing; it is going to be really unpleasant; we are going to lose things - we just don't know how much."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1371404,00.html

[medeak]

1. did you see John Stossel on 20 20 tonight

oh why do I still tune in?

Interviewing Michael Crighton... there is no global warming.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Stossel is another right-wing fuckwit

who is desperately in need of a very firm wedgie.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Sorry, I don't watch Stossel

He is an all out fascist!

I am not surprised he said there was no global warming. What a jerk!

[medeak]

6. just sent email to 20 20 and consolation

was all the hate mail posted on site for Stossel.

Pray tell they don't think people will be tuning in just to hate the guy?

[amazona]

9. I have no use for Stossel

He got on a crusade against the national flood insurance program which, contrary to his lies, is not welfare but an insurance program for which users must pay. I figure if he would lie about something so innocuous, he would lie about anything.

[w13rd0]

3. But hey!

It'll open new shipping lanes for the petrol industry!

[IndianaGreen]

5. Summer vacations at Hudson Bay

No need for Panama Canal once the ice cap has melted away. What me worry?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. And all those brightly-colored tropical penguins.

[IndianaGreen]

8. And the Polar Bear will be the name of a tropical drink

The only eco-terrorism is the one we are perpetrating on this planet.

[Maestro]

10. I am just thoroughly confused!

Why governments and idiots like Stossel and Crighton continue to deny global warming is just beyond me. Just a few feet of rise to the oceans could create disaster not to mention throwing the off the warm water conveyer belt that warms northern Europe. Hello Ice Age II!!!!!!!!! :mad: