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Thursday, November 25, 2004

Non curo. non lo so.

In a speech to other senior officials at the meeting, the United States under secretary of state for global affairs, Paula J. Dobriansky, said that once the full science report is released early next year, "the United States will take the findings into account as it continues to review the science on climate change."

Really, i could have thought that the full report, which was actually released online on November 8th, suggests that further review is not acceptable. here are a few of the tidbits that indicate that the problems are already clearly verifiable.
Due to loss of perma frost buildings across Siberia have been collapsing at alarming rates from 22% in Tiksi to 90% in Amderma in the last decade. The Khanty-Mansi pipeline region experienced 1702 fossil fuels pipeline failures permanently toxifying more than 640 square kilometers of agricultural land.
Destruction of the Alaskan forests will begin to occur from fires and insects at rates between 100-300% while underbrush will grow more rapidly choking out habitats of many species. Pretty much all of the marine species are in decline as warming fresh waters desalinate fisheries and make salmon and other related species spawning more difficult. Seal and sea lion populations have declined by up to 65% in some areas already. Most all of coastal based infrastructure is threatened with collapse of ice shelf formations, loss of permafrost conditions, increased flooding of tundra, et al.
In the Canadian arctic polar bears and other sea mammals will be threatened with extinction as their populations are collapsing at alarming rates. the boreal forests are moving northward at a rate of 7-10 kilometers per year and by the end of the century will eliminate the tundra as they will have moved more than a thousand miles to the north--these forests do not provide any useful wood products by the way..

anyway, get the picture.. the arctic has already changed dramatically and will continue to do so.. there is no need for further review, well except to allow more time for the energy extraction industries to rape and pillage as much as they can before it all collapses..