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.
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