Antarctic Peninsula’s Collins Glacier an early indicator of rapid global ice melt. Glaciers are in retreat across the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is experiencing some of the fastest climate melting across the globe.
Because Antarctica contains 90% of the world’s ice and 70% of all fresh water reserves, the glacial melt is also expected to have a significant effect on rising sea levels. Some of the ice masses, such as Collins Glacier on King George Island in the Northern Peninsula, are forecast to disappear within two decades.
In a telephone interview with Supreme Master Television, leading South American glaciologist Dr. Jefferson Simões at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, explained that glaciers like those on King George Island are extremely sensitive to slight temperature variations.
Dr. Jefferson Simões – Chief glaciologist – Institute of Geosciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (M): Ice in King George Island is near the melting point. It's near zero at the surface. Any energy that I give to it, is going to melt. So that's why we think that the glaciers in that area of the world, are very good as our early warning system about climatic change because they respond very fast.
VOICE: Dr. Simões explained that severe global warming is speeding the melting process throughout the Antarctic Peninsula.
Dr. Jefferson Simões (M): Just to give an example, in the northern part of the peninsula, some of the stations have shown a 3-Celsius degrees increase of the mean annual temperature in a period of 50 years.
Compare that with the warming that we had at a global level that was about 0.7, 0.8 degrees in 140 years.
VOICE: Our appreciation, Dr. Simões, for helping us to understand the perilous state of such ice masses as Collins Glacier and our planet.
May your efforts help awaken us all and lead to rapid actions to return the balance of our ecosphere. In her ongoing efforts to help humanity realize the urgent need to reverse global warming, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the issue of melting glaciers during an August 2009 videoconferencein Thailand.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : Everything is heating up so quickly, as we can see from the scientists’ reports on such alarming upheaval, such as rising sea levels and glaciers melting.
So we must work quickly to avoid such unwanted outcomes. And the most effective way, as I have mentioned, is the organic vegan diet, organic vegetable farming. This is also the fastest way to reverse the increased warming climate to prevent further damage and disaster.
The more people who understand and change, the more chance our world will be saved in time.
University of the Philippines researchers report that Cagayan, Palawan and Iloilo provinces are highly vulnerable to climate-induced sea level rise, while Guimaras’ mango farmers have already begun to see diminished crop returns from the island’s 200,000 trees.
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=577176&publicationSubCategoryId=67 http://www.mb.com.ph/node/258768Extra NewsBritish environmental campaigner Lewis Gordon Pugh swims across a Mount Everest glacial lake to bring attention to the world’s quickly melting glaciers and urge governments toward making climate change a priority.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8699152.stmhttp://www.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/826965-gordon-pugh-i-m-at-the-edge-of-human-capabilityAccording to a recent report by the UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, of the 370 species being offered protection as endangered in the country,only half have stabilized, with some 88 species that continue to decline.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7750078/Quarter-of-UKs-endangered-species-declining-despite-government-action.htmlhttp://www.optimumpopulation.org/blog/?p=2302http://www.wbur.org/2010/05/19/forests
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