Greenland ice melt shows evidence of accelerated warming. As part of a study led by Welsh glaciologist Dr. Alun Hubbard of Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom, data was recently collected from time-lapse cameras and global positioning system (GPS) masts that had been set up on Greenland's Petermann Glacier in July and August 2009.
To their immense surprise, the scientists found the ice had melted so quickly that several of the GPS masts were no longer in position. Dr. Hubbard also stated that although satellite imagery had prepared him for massive ice loss, he was shocked at what he actually saw, saying that it was nearly impossible to really comprehend something as large as a 20 kilometer ice shelf having disappeared.
Meanwhile, preliminary results from another new study by US researchers at the University of Washington found that last year's Arctic sea ice was actually the lowest ever, even less than a previous record minimum of 4.13 million square kilometers in 2007.
This represents a drastic loss over the past three decades, when compared to a minimum ice level in the early 1970s of about 7 million square kilometers.
While melting sea ice from the Arctic does not significantly raise sea levels, warmer temperatures at the North Pole does affect Greenland, where a melting of the massive volume of ice there could raise sea levels by a full 7 meters.
Our appreciation, Welsh and US researchers for your work in documenting these increasingly rapid and serious effects of global warming.
May we all swiftly join in lifestyle choices that preserve the Earth for both humans and other beings.
Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the urgent issue of the heating planet at an interview by Novedades Newspaper in December 2010, and reminded of the quickest way to restore Earth’s stability.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : Yesterday, I listened to all the suffering of the people from Africa and those small, low-lying islands. They say, if the way things are going, it’s going to heat up 5 degrees Celsius more and they're going to die; they cannot do anything.
No technology can help them at that time. And the low-lying islands, many, 18 islands, are already gone, dead, underwater, 6 meters, and many more because the sea level keeps rising.
Because the planet heats up and the ice melts, the sea level keeps rising, many people, sometimes the whole population, have to move away.
According to scientists and United Nations reports, animal industry causes 51%-plus of the greenhouse gas of the planet.
Greenhouse gas is the one that heats up our planet. Okay, on top of that, we have carbon dioxide, of course.
So now, if we take this animal industry away, we will save 51% of the heat already.
And if we use the land, the animal land, and all the cultivating land on the whole planet, to grow organic vegetables, then we can take away 40% carbon dioxide.
So easy, why don't they do that?
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-pics-greenland-glacier-shocksexpert.htmlhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44353322/ns/us_news-environment/t/second-giant-ice-island-set-break-greenland-glacier/http://bprc.osu.edu/wiki/Petermann_Glacier_before-after-photos_2010-2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-14771523http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8746165/Arctic-sea-ice-falls-to-record-low.htmlExtra NewsThe Haikou municipal government in China adds over 200 new green vehicles including electric and hybrid buses along with electric taxicabs to city’s public transport system in an effort to increase the number of environmentally vehicles in the city.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-09/05/c_131097265.htm http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-09/04/content_13614948.htm An extreme weather system between New Zealand and Antarctica at the beginning of September 2011 generated a rare Pacific-wide swell that brought unexpected waves the size not seen in decades to several countries along the west coasts of South, Central and North America, with two surfers who perished in southern California, USA.
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/giant-southern-hemisphere-swell-lights-up-entire-west-coast-1_59237http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/rare-event-sends-s-pacific-waves-crashing-into-california-coasts/http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/5561650/Huge-New-Zealand-swell-hitting-California
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