Scientists
say that the glaciers on Turkey’s highest peak, the historic Mount
Ararat believed to be where Noah's Ark settled after the Great Flood,
have shrunk by 30% in surface area over the last 30 years.
Geologist
Mehmet Akif Sarikaya, Assistant Professor at Istanbul's Fatih
University stated that the satellite images revealed the extent of the
melting, with the glacier’s surface area decreasing from eight square
kilometers in 1976 to 5.5 in 2008, a loss of about seven hectares per
year.
The ice disappearance also correlates with measurements of
successive temperature increase in the region of .03 degrees Celsius
per year. Professor Sarikaya and Fatih University colleagues, we are
grateful for your observations, despite their disturbing nature, which
add to the picture of glacial loss we are seeing across the globe.
May
we heed such warnings and quickly switch to lifestyles that restore the
Earth’s balance and the lives of her inhabitants. During an August 2008
videoconference with our Canadian Association members, Supreme Master
Ching Hai highlighted the urgency of ice cap melt worldwide and
emphasized, as on many previous occasions, the need to foster
eco-conscious ways.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
The time of disappearing of the ice means also the spelling of trouble
for our planet. Of course it would be better if we already saved the
planet before the ice melted.
But as it is, we can only do the
best we can and trying to inform everybody to save themselves by being
vegan. If the ice melts quicker, then, of course, we have shorter time
to save the planet. But nevertheless because people are joining the
vegan diet, we still can manage to save the world.
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