Oh. Nevermind.
Posted on 09/20/2004 10:30:53 AM PDT by Area Freeper
Mussels have been found growing on the seabed just 1,300 km (800 miles) from the North Pole in a likely sign of global warming, scientists said on Friday.
The blue mussels, which normally favor warmer waters like off France or the eastern United States, were discovered last month off Norway's Svalbard archipelago in waters that are covered with ice most of the year.
"The climate is changing fast," said Geir Johnsen, a professor at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology who was among experts who found the bivalves. Mollusks were a "very good indicator that the climate is warming," he said.
"It seems like the mussels we found are two to three years old," he told Reuters. Such shellfish have not been recorded off the islands since Viking times 1,000 years ago during another warm period.
U.N. scientists say the Arctic is now warming faster than any other region because of human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released from burning fossil fuels in cars, factories and power plants.
As the white ice and snow melts, it exposes darker ground or water that soaks up heat and so accelerates warming compared to regions further south. By comparison, ice in Antarctica is thicker and acts as a deep freeze resisting global warming.
Inuit peoples in Canada, for instance, are seeing robins for the first time and hunters are falling through previously solid sea ice. In Scandinavia, birch trees are moving northwards into previously icy areas used for reindeer herding.
The scientists monitoring Svalbard also said they had found seas free of ice further north than for 250 years at one point this summer.
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Damn Vikings and their greenhouse gasses...
Grant-whores. They'll say anything it takes to keep that paycheck coming in.
Oh. Nevermind.
ICBM's at Tehran hint at extinct-er earth.
Jeanne wipes out major coastal town in northern Haiti. Or was it a tsunami ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221118/posts
LOL! And they're always singing about spam.
U.N. scientists say the Arctic is now warming faster than any other region because of human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released from burning fossil fuels in cars, factories and power plants.
That these two sentences are next to each other in the story cracks me up. Oh, yes, them Viking power plants. . .
More mussels... yum! Send them to my house.
ping
couldnt possibly be from the quad runners and snowmobiles the "scientists" are using (sarcasm)
Of course, global socialism is the only acceptable solution.
Good.
Now we can go to Alaska and bask on the beaches.
And we will produce less of those greenhouse gases the libs are always whining about while keeping ourselves warm in winter.
Best of all, the melting ice might flood Paris.
North Pole had sub-tropical seas because of global warming - find here the TRUTH
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209743/posts?page=41#41
Mussels grow very well in DownEast Maine, where the water is rather cold.
Warmer waters? That's not what it says Here! " The eastern shore of Nova Scotia from the Strait of Canso to Halifax has clean, cold water that supports blue mussel farming."
BTW Blue Mussels eat plankton --- just like many whales. Nothern waters (i.e. cold) including under the Artic Ice are very rich in plankton.
The shellfish are evolving. The now have fur coat shells.
YOU OWE ME A NEW KEYBOARD!
I want them to study how the mussel larva survived a 1,000 year dormancy.
I also want to hear THEM, not others, explain:
What caused that Viking-times warming, and why this warming period is not from the same cause(s)?
And, what ended that warming?
And what about warming periods prior to that?
And, if man & industry is so much to blame, why was there cooling in the 1800s?
Should keep them busy writing grant-aps until retirement age.
The long reaching tentacles of George W. Bush were found even back then. This is all Bush's fault.
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