Professor
Steve Running of the University of Montana, former member of the Nobel
laureate UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), recently
published results of a study assessing the impact of global warming to
the Rocky Mountains in the western USA. His findings include a forecast
that
climate change in the region was likely to significantly affect wildlife as well as ecosystems and the economy.
The
report specifically warned of temperature increases having dramatic
impact on forests in the coming decades, with a corresponding worsening
of droughts that would incur epidemics of insect infestations and
catastrophic wildfires throughout the states of Montana, Wyoming and
Idaho.
Professor Running, we appreciate this informative report,
despite its disturbing implications for the iconic Rocky Mountain
range. Let us join in concerted care and act now to bring a sustainable
future for our planet.
In speaking of her concern about the
consequences of global warming, Supreme Master Ching Hai has also
offered a solution to alleviate its effects, as during an August 2008
videoconference with our Association members
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Even if we plant more trees, there will be something else happening,
maybe wildfire, or the beetle will be more in abundance, and then they
will also begin to eat away all the forest.
So this is a really
terrible situation. The only thing is we have to be morally fit. And
have to be virtuous. Otherwise, there’s no getting away from the bad
karma, meaning the retribution, for whatever we do.
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/long_drought_ahead_from_global_warming_study_says/C41/L41/ http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_544db786-fb4e-11de-805b-001cc4c002e0.html http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/tempunits.html
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