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.
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