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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: ManyMoose who wrote (733573)3/22/2006 11:15:48 AM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Well, while we argue, it happens. And the damage is likely irreversable:

Inuit alarmed by signs of global warming
'Sentries for the rest of the world' report massive changes to Arctic life

Doug Struck / Washington Post


Updated: 8:33 a.m. ET March 22, 2006
PANGNIRTUNG, Canada - Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, hunter Noah Metuq feels the Arctic changing. Its frozen grip is loosening; the people and animals who depend on its icy reign are experiencing a historic reshaping of their world.

Fish and wildlife are following the retreating ice caps northward. Polar bears are losing the floes they need for hunting. Seals, unable to find stable ice, are hauling up on islands to give birth. Robins and barn owls and hornets, previously unknown so far north, are arriving in Arctic villages.

The global warming felt by wildlife and increasingly documented by scientists is hitting first and hardest here, in the Arctic where the Inuit people make their home. The hardy Inuit -- described by one of their leaders as "sentries for the rest of the world" -- say this winter was the worst in a series of warm winters, replete with alarms of the quickening transformation that many scientists believe will spread from the north to the rest of the globe.


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