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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (253181)	5/7/2002 12:12:09 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 769670

Republicans to build bass fishing retreat in Antarctica to celebrate global warming. Exxon, giddy after it's success in removing the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will fund the retreat, where strategists can plan future hit lists of others who espouse the view of the majority of scientists who say global warming is being caused by humans,... Antarctic Lakes Display Dramatic Response to Climate Change Antarctic lakes may be the most sensitive harbingers yet of the effects of the earth's changing climate, scientists say. According to a study published in the current issue of the journal Science, lakes on Antarctica's Signy Island (see image) have experienced a temperature increase nearly three times greater than that of the surrounding air. Furthermore, the average amount of time each year that the lakes were frozen over decreased by more than four weeks between 1980 and 1993. Such trends, the researchers write, "indicate that local climate change has been translated into extreme ecological change." Wendy Quayle of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and colleagues studied 17 lakes located on Signy Island, which lies at the junction of the Weddell and Scotia Seas. Such polar lakes can serve as early detectors of environmental change, the team notes, because variations in snow and ice cover markedly affect their ecological variables. Indeed, according to co-author Lloyd Peck, "the pristine nature of Antarctic lakes gives us a unique natural laboratory where we can identify changes that are undetectable in contaminated lakes." sciam.com Del