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Posted on 03/11/2006 3:18:09 PM PST by Enviroboy3000
Warmer Arctic Waters Forcing Animals North
By CLAYTON SANDELL March 9, 2006 — - The Bering Sea -- which lies just south of the Arctic Circle between Russia and Alaska -- is getting warmer, and the heat is already having a huge impact on marine wildlife there.
Among the findings is a declining food supply for populations of walrus, gray whales and sea ducks in this northern sea.
It appears that these animals now have to compete with fish populations that have pushed into their territory, said the study's lead author, Jacqueline Grebmeier of the University of Tennessee.
Near-freezing water in the northern Bering Sea has traditionally kept bottom-feeding fish like halibut and flounder farther south in warmer waters. But as temperatures have risen -- as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit at the sea floor -- the fish have moved farther north, where they eat the food favored by the larger marine mammals.
"This demonstrates the biological effect in an area so shallow that it doesn't take much to fundamentally change the system," said Lee Cooper, chemical oceanographer at the University of Tennessee and co-author of the study. "It's a little sobering."
The report presents evidence that "gray whales have responded by moving their primary foraging area northward," and cites a "surprising detection" of gray whale calls in the winter of 2003-2004 near Barrow, Alaska, a place where local hunters report "more numerous gray whales than in any time previously."
But there is a limit to how far north the whales and other mammals can go.
"You eventually fall off the continental shelf," Grebmeier said. "They don't have to go very far north of Barrow and they're into that much deeper water basin. And they can't find food that deep."
More here: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1706459&page=1
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Consider the source, folks. I wouldn't believe ABC News if they said the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. I'd have to confirm it myself.
Not to mention people. God, it's hot.
And your opinion of this is?????.......
You post it, you should at least comment on it.
I agree. Seems improbable.
ABC is never to be trusted. They are agenda driven.
They are to busy trying to spray paint the recently discovered fur bearing lobsters.
Not here in Arizona. It got cold last night and... and... drops of water started coming out of the sky!!!!!!!! Now my backyard is all cold and wet!!!!!! What does this mean?????!!!! Are we doomed???!!!
Global warming. It was snowing here in San Jose yesterday.
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Enviroboy3000 ZOTTED!
and... drops of water started coming out of the sky!!!!!!!!
Not to worry...
It's called sky juice...
and... drops of water started coming out of the sky!!!!!!!!
Not to worry...
It's called sky juice...
Oh no!!! The godless sky juice!!!
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Geez, we're freezing our asses off here in San Diego, I could f-ing USE some of that global warming about now!!!
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