The latest evidence 
 
of global warming 
 
presented by a team of 
 
German, Norwegian, and 
 
US scientists has shown 
 
that the northern end of 
 
the Gulf Stream current, 
 
which is flowing 
 
into the Arctic Ocean, 
 
is warmer now 
 
than it has been 
 
for at least 2,000 years. 
 
Analyzing 
 
ocean sediment cores 
 
dating back two millennia, 
 
the scientists found 
 
that the waters 
 
in the Fram Strait 
 
between Greenland 
 
and Svalbard, Norway 
 
have warmed roughly 
 
two degrees Celsius 
 
in the past century. 
 
The Fram Straight 
 
is the main carrier of 
 
ocean heat to the Arctic 
 
and in recent summers 
 
registered at around 
 
6 degrees Celsius, 
 
which is warmer 
 
than at any other 
 
previous time included 
 
in the data. 
 
Dr. Robert Spielhagen 
 
of the Academy of 
 
Sciences, Humanities 
 
and Literature in Mainz, 
 
Germany, 
 
noted the implications 
 
of the unnaturally warm 
 
temperatures, stating: 
 
“We must assume that 
 
the accelerated decrease 
 
of the Arctic sea ice 
 
cover and the warming of 
 
the ocean and atmosphere 
 
of the Arctic measured 
 
in recent decades 
 
are in part related to an 
 
increased heat transfer 
 
from the Atlantic.” 
 
As the ice melts, 
 
darker colored waters are 
 
exposed, which soak up 
 
more heat from the sun 
 
and further accelerate 
 
warming. 
 
With Arctic ice cover 
 
at a record low as of 
 
January 2011, scientists 
 
warn that the region 
 
is all too quickly heading 
 
toward ice-free summers, 
 
with repercussions that 
 
range from the loss of 
 
vital habitat to more 
 
far-reaching changes 
 
such as 
 
weather disturbances 
 
in the British Isles. 
 
Dr. Spielhagen
 
and associates, 
 
our sincere thanks for 
 
your dedicated efforts to 
 
reveal these interrelated 
 
factors of global warming. 
 
May we all do our part 
 
to adopt lifestyles 
 
that protect 
 
and cool our planet. 
 
Speaking of 
 
the situation's urgency 
 
during a September 2009 
 
videoconference 
 
in South Korea, 
 
Supreme Master Ching Hai 
 
described the most 
 
effective means by which 
 
we may halt Arctic 
 
warming, as well as all 
 
threats of climate change.
 
Supreme Master Ching Hai 
 
: As you saw for yourself 
 
how quickly the 
 
North Pole is melting - 
 
it's at least twice as fast 
 
as the rest of the globe. 
 
First, we have to survive. 
 
We cut down 
 
the number one cause 
 
of global warming. 
We have to eliminate 
 
animal products 
 
because we want to 
 
save the planet. 
No animal products means
 
having the planet. 
 
And even a heavenly world 
 
we will have because 
 
being veg changes 
 
everything drastically.
 
With temperatures 
 
stabilized, 
 
ecosystems balanced, 
 
animals thriving in peace,
one of the results is that 
 
the ice in the Arctic will 
 
be restored, and quickly, 
 
along with 
 
the repairing of nature 
 
in every corner 
 
of the planet.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-north-atlantic-tied-arctic.html, 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/us-climate-arctic-idUSTRE70P6TE20110128
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