Glacier National Park loses two more named glaciers. Ecologist Dr. Dan Fagre with the US Geological Survey (USGS) has reported that two of the icecaps in Montana’s Glacier National Park, Miche Wabun and Shepard, have shrunk below the threshold that would qualify them as glaciers.
Thus, the park which once totaled 150 glaciers, including 37 with names, has now been reduced to 25.
Dr. Fagre also said that these remaining ice caps may well be gone by 2020.
He explained, "When we're measuring glacier margins, by the time we go home the glacier is already
smaller than what we've measured."
Meanwhile, a new report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and Natural Resources Defense Council
confirmed that the average temperature at Glacier National Park has been rising twice as fast as the planet
as a whole, with the shrinking glaciers also limiting water in streams while raising the risk for forest fires
as well as irreversible harm to wildlife ecosystems.
Our thanks, Dr. Fagre, US Geological Survey, Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and Natural Resources
Defense Council for these observations, despite their disturbing forecast. May our more caring planetary stewardship speed us toward a renewal of these and other delicate ecosystems.
As mentioned on previous occasions, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke again during a November 2009
videoconference in Washington, DC, USA on the most urgently needed action to stop the global phenomenon
of glacier melt.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Glaciers across the globe are shrinking more quickly than researchers ever expected, leaving rivers and lakes gone, disappearing or drying, with no water for crops and billions who face food shortages due to water shortages, as well.
In the state of Montana, the famous glaciers of Glacier National Park are now expected to disappear within a decade.
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.
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/glacier-national-park-lost-2-more-named-glaciers-down-25-2602419.htmlhttp://www.syracuse.com/have-you-heard/index.ssf/2010/04/two_more_glaciers_are_gone_fro.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1846999/climate_change_could_destroy_glacier_national_park/http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978160371Extra NewsAn unseasonal heat wave causes Indian states such as Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh
and West Bengal to reach record temperatures as high as 45-degree Celsius, with the oppressive heat
being linked to the loss of at least 35 lives.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Sun-stroke-death-rises-to-37-in-Orissa-/articleshow/5789433.cmshttp://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/orissa-town-at-45-degrees-as-heat-wave-on_100346142.html http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/shimla-sizzles-at-27-degrees-celsius_100346144.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Hottest-day-in-past-four-decades/articleshow/5782762.cmsA report in the US-based New England Journal of Medicine warns that a 2- to 3-degree Celsius
global average temperature rise will also increase the incidence of malaria as well as disease
from contaminated water.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=climate-change-ups-infectious-disea-10-04-02The government of Tokyo, Japan signs an agreement with US-based company Better Place to create the world’s first pilot test of an automated battery-swap network to swiftly replenish electric vehicles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/05/tokyo-electric-cars-better-placeFeaturing a 200-kilometer driving range and a chassis that weighs half that of similar-sized vehicles,
Finland’s prototype all-electric RaceAbout can also recharge its lithium ion battery in just 10 minutes.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/finlands-all-electric-sports-car-charges-just-10-minutes
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