US
Geological Survey (USGS) researchers who have been conducting a first
ever survey of Antarctica’s entire coastline coasts are now reporting
that the southern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is its
coldest, has been retreating for sixty years, with the biggest changes
occurring since 1990.
The scientists report that this condition
is likely suggestive of the situation across all of Antarctica, whose
ice sheet contains 91% of the world’s glacial water and could cause a 60
to 73 meter sea level rise if all the land-based ice were to melt.
As
noted by environmental experts, even one meter of sea level rise would
jeopardize food supplies across the world. USGS scientist Jane Ferrigno
stated, “The loss of ice shelves is evidence of the effects of global
warming.
We need to be alert and continually understand and
observe how our climate system is changing." We thank Dr. Ferrigno and
associate scientists at the US Geological Survey for your careful
monitoring of the Antarctic.
Let us act now to restore the
planet-cooling balance of our world’s ice caps by choosing lifestyles in
greater harmony with nature.
As mentioned on previous occasions,
Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke again during a November 2009
videoconference in Washington, DC, USA of the most direct way to avert
the potentially catastrophic consequences of global warming.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Greenland is shedding 85 million tons of icebergs each day due to
warming, and at a rate that is increasing by 7 percent each year. The
West Antarctic Ice Shelf is also melting, with 3.3 meter sea level rises
forecast that would threaten cities like New York, Washington, D.C.,
and San Francisco.
And if all of Antarctica and Greenland were to
melt – meaning the ice – then the sea levels could rise to as much as 70
meters, which would be deadly or disastrous to most lives on Earth.
You may ask, what is the main cause of this damage and destruction to the environment?
It’s methane, which is produced primarily by the livestock industry.
NASA
announced that methane actually contributes much more to global warming
than previously understood and it traps 100 times the atmospheric heat
over 20 years. And the largest source of methane is? You know -
livestock.
So, to solve this, we do need to move quickly, and of course we know what to do, right?
Yes? Be vegan.
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