Posted on 10/16/2008 2:43:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON Autumn temperatures in the Arctic are at record levels, the Arctic Ocean is getting warmer and less salty as sea ice melts, and reindeer herds appear to be declining, researchers reported Thursday.
"Obviously, the planet is interconnected, so what happens in the Arctic does matter" to the rest of the world, Jackie Richter-Menge of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H., said in releasing the third annual Arctic Report Card.
The report, compiled by 46 scientists from 10 countries, looks at a variety of conditions in the Arctic.
The region has long been expected to be among the first areas to show impacts from global warming, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says is largely a result of human activities adding carbon dioxide and other gases to the atmosphere.
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I didn't know that reindeer went out on the Arctic Ocean ice.
-there would be more reindeer, if the weather were warming, with increased vegetation for the reindeer to eat.
"And Leon's getting laaaarger!"
So if the ocean is heating up, and the ice is thickening....
that means Hell CAN freeze over!
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