NASA confirms accelerated ice melt in Antarctica. Using a combination of gravity and laser satellite data, scientists at the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) studying Antarctic glaciers have confirmed the region’s warming and consequent loss of ice mass.
Measuring the ice loss has required special techniques because many of the glaciers are underwater and do not rest on land. Nonetheless, a major review published in 2009 found that especially those on the Western Peninsula are retreating at an ever accelerating rate.
The recent NASA satellite data confirms those findings, signaling dangerous changes that could result in massive sea level rise. The retreat of the Western Antarctic’s Pine Island Glacier has quadrupled between 1995 and 2006.
Moreover, melting beneath the large ice shelves is speeding their collapse and leading to losses such as the one in 2002, where the vast, 12,000-year-old Larsen B took only three weeks to disintegrate entirely.
National Aeronautics and Space Agency scientists, we appreciate these factual observations of the rapidly changing Antarctic, disturbing as they are. At this urgent time of planetary crisis, let us join in caring and sustainable lifestyles to preserve our planetary home. Supreme Master Ching Hai has often emphasized
the critical need to act in reversing global warming and its adverse effects, as during an August 2009 videoconference in 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. This, along with the effect of melting glaciers, are now causing excessive floods but eventually will cause drought and vastly diminished water supplies as well.
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.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/20100108_Is_Antarctica_Melting.htmlhttp://history.nasa.gov/50thannnasaconf/history_50th_bio.html#jump4Extra NewsScientists in Florida, USA report that the recent period of extreme cold caused so many regional fish to perish that their populations could take years to recover.
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/01/19/Cold-decimates-Florida-saltwater-fish/UPI-96751263917364/To conserve the environment and natural resources, as well as to further sustainable development goals, a fleet of eco-friendly hybrid vehicles are being added to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs in the United Arab Emirates.
http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1261832885067&pagename=WAM%2FWAM_E_Layout&parent=Query&parentid=1135099399852France’s Ministry of Sustainable Development announces plans to plant nectar-bearing flowers across more than 250 kilometers of roadsides to help revive populations of honey bees.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100119-making-buzz-french-roads-help-honey-beesA plot of land in Pennsylvania, USA originally slated for urban development will now host a US$32 million solar farm instead, to protect the endangered toads who make their homes in the region.
http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/01/15/endangered-toad-helps-get-32m-solar-project-hopping/
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