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"Greener Than Any Mega-Yacht in Her Class..."

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:29:00 +0000

Comment from Fr. Paul R. Bear >>

"You go, girl!! We ice bears are left to wonder, "what will the humans think of next?" My you are a clever bunch. (Smart, but not wise...) Still, from where I sit, buying an energy-efficient yacht in even the smallest luxury boat class does not excuse you from going to carbon confession."

Motoryacht Ark Angel
By Keith Henderson at March 22, 2011 10:43
Maritime Propulsion

"...Sauter Carbon Offset Design recently introduced the superyacht Ark Angel with a design claiming to be faster and far greener than any megayacht in her class. The design aspires to achieve 50 to 100 per cent reduction in fuel consumption and GHG emissions.

The 78 m hull and decks are of Carbon/Kevlar composite construction, beam is 10 m and draft 2.4 m (at 50 per cent load): the superstructure is aluminum giving a displacement of 450 tons.

The total propulsive power of the ship is 4,000 kW, split between three electric pods with counter rotating propellers (CRP). A multi-mode solar hybrid propulsion arrangement offers flexibility in the choice of several power sources available to propel the vessel."

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Big Arctic Ice Thaw coming this summer

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:42:00 +0000

Big Arctic Ice Thaw coming this summer
By Craig Dillon | February 12th 2011 05:31 PM

Science20.com

"...The Arctic Ice is preparing itself for a large reduction in sea ice area this summer. The summer of 2007 surprised climatologists when a summer low in ice area was set at about 3 million sqkm. To put that in perspective, in the early 1980's, the Arctic sea ice would melt back to an area around 5 mil sqkm.

The current ice coverage is 1.1 mil sq km less than what it should be, and should be setting a record low for winter ice area this winter. More importantly though, the Cryosphere Today website by the University of Illinois shows that the current midwinter ice cap has not completely frozen over its coverage area. The presentation of the ice cap is color coded indicating the percentage of ice coverage in its area. The colors show that 5% and 10% of much of the ice covered area is actually open water.

This means that the ice cap is susceptible to a large reduction in sea ice area when the thawing begins this March..."

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Climate change keenly felt in Alaska's national parks

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:08:00 +0000

Climate change keenly felt in Alaska's national parks | Reuters:

By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:43pm GMT

(Reuters)

"...Thawing permafrost is triggering mudslides onto a key road traveled by busloads of sightseers. Tall bushes newly sprouted on the tundra are blocking panoramic views. And glaciers are receding from convenient viewing areas, while their rapid summer melt poses new flood risks.

These are just a few of the ways that a rapidly warming climate is reshaping Denali, Kenai Fjords and other national parks comprising the crown jewels of Alaska's heritage as America's last frontier..."

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With health care 'repealed,' GOP turns to climate change

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:02:00 +0000

If I am hungry, that is a material question. If others are hungry, that is a spiritual question. -- Berdyadev

In a little hilltop village, they gamble for my clothes. I'm fighting for salvation and they give me a lethal dose. -- Bob Dylan

Your policy vacillation is destroying my only home. -- Fr. Paul R. Bear

With health care 'repealed,' GOP turns to climate change - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com:

Posted on Thursday, 01.20.11
Hard part begins for GOP: Replacing health care law
Planet Washington Blog - Musings from the Capitol
BY RENEE SCHOOF
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

"...There is an enormous failure, in my view, to see the ethical and moral dimensions of this issue," said Donald Brown, a professor of environmental ethics at Penn State University. "It's very difficult for people in the United States to see that self-interest is an important consideration, but we also have responsibilities to people in Africa."

Brown argues that farmers facing worsening drought in African countries are the first victims of a changing climate, and that every year of delay in slashing U.S. emissions makes helping them harder.

Politicians give two reasons not to act to restrict emissions — it would cost too much, and there are uncertainties about what the exact effect of climate change will be.

Brown said that skirts a fundamental issue.

"The economic argument has been used to scare people, without reflecting on rights and responsibilities," he said. And uncertainty "requires, ethically, that if the harm is big enough, that the burden of proof should shift to the person who wants to do the dangerous behavior, particularly in cases where if you wait until all the uncertainty is resolved, it's too late."

Politically, it's a tough sell. There aren't the votes in Congress for a broad cap-and-trade approach to cut emissions. Also, there's not much chance that Congress this year will vote on other measures to bring emissions down.

"Here's the thing," said Dale Jamieson, a professor of environmental studies and philosophy at New York University. "So climate change is in some ways an incredibly complex issue. It's slow motion. It has millions of different players. The effects are disaggregated."

But it's also simple, he said. "It really comes down to this — the U.S. and countries like us — we're dumping on others and harming them because of acting in our own interest."

Miranda Kerr Reveals Her Worst Eco-Sin

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:40:00 +0000

Miranda Kerr Reveals Her Worst Eco-Sin | ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip:

1/30/11

"...Kerr hasn’t jumped on the vegan bandwagon yet, but that doesn’t mean she won’t someday. And if you think that’s the celeb’s biggest eco faux pas, think again. When asked what her worst eco-sin has been, the 27-year-old replied, “Flying, but it’s a necessity for my job. However, I try to do my best by offsetting my miles.”"

Actualizing the theology of global warming

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:37:00 +0000

This is what I'm talking about, people!! Let's get serious about the theology of carbon. This guy totally gets it.

-- Fr. Paul R. Bear

Actualizing the theology of global warming | The Jakarta Post

Ali Sobirin, Jakarta | Fri, 01/28/2011 9:49 AM | Opinion

"...As a nation that believes in God, with Muslims making up the majority of the population, Indonesia has begun to build and manifest a theology of global warming and climate change.

The theology suggests that natural resources, especially energy, have limitations (ajalin musamma), as mentioned in the Koran 46:3, 30:8, 22:32 and 13:2. Therefore, these must be managed wisely and sustainable energy conservation must be promoted.

There are at least three principles laying the foundation for this theology. First, the Earth is a place of ideal life, as stated in the Koran 55:10, 7:24 and 7:74. Second, the sky (atmosphere) is a protector of life as quoted in the Koran 2:22 and 21:32. As a material that serves as both a habitat and guardian of life, the Earth and sky should be managed and utilized properly. Arbitrary treatment could potentially destroy life, both directly and indirectly. Third, global warming is anthropogenic, which means it is a result of erroneous human behavior in managing natural resources and the environment.

As we know, fossil-based energy sources such as coal, oil and natural gas have been used as sources of energy and produce huge emissions, such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases, into the atmosphere. These various gases are responsible for climate change and global warming, better known as the greenhouse effect. At the same time, deforestation is widespread.

The third principle emphasizes that caring for the Earth and the sky is a religious duty (Koran 7:56 and 28:83) and becomes a prerequisite for realization of the goals of sharia (maqashid shari’ah).

In failing to take care of the Earth and sky, the five basic tenets of the good of human life (al-dlaruriyat al-khamsa), which are to maintain religion (hifdz al-din), keep the soul (hifdz al-nafs), keep the lineage (hifdz al-nasl), keep the mind (hifdz al-‘aql) and maintain property (hifdz al-mal), will not be fulfilled.

According to the World Health Organization, climate change was responsible for 2.4 percent of diarrheal diseases and 6 percent of malaria infections in low-income countries in 2000. Climate change has also caused 150,000 annual deaths, and will double by 2030..."

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Walrus protection can wait: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Reuters

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:32:00 +0000

Walrus protection can wait: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Reuters:

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Wed Feb 9, 2011 9:30am EST
(Reuters)

"...The Pacific walrus, hampered by vanishing sea ice in Arctic waters, deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act but must wait in line behind more imperiled animals, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman said on Tuesday.

The decision dashed environmentalists' hopes that the lumbering, long-tusked marine mammal would soon join the polar bear as a federally protected icon of global warming."

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Polar bears having fewer cubs due to global warming

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:29:00 +0000

Kudos to Iranian journalists for reporting on this issue.

tehran times : Polar bears having fewer cubs due to global warming:

2/13/11

"...Polar bears numbers could plummet with climate change, according to a new study that showed females are giving birth to fewer cubs due to the loss of sea ice.

Researchers at the University of Alberta looked at how melting sea ice in the 1990s effected the breeding success of polar bears.

During the spring and summer months the females are hunting seals on the ice to build up energy for the autumn and winter when they will hibernate for up to eight months and give birth.

The study found the early melting of the ice made it more difficult for the bears to hunt seals successfully and build up energy."

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Pika driven from traditional habitat by warming trend

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:15:00 +0000

As temperatures have risen, populations of the American pika have moved from lower elevations to cooler climes upslope.

Enlisting Endangered Species As a Tool to Combat Warming
Environment 360
by todd woody

While a high-profile battle raged over listing the polar bear as a threatened species due to melting Arctic sea ice, U.S. environmentalists were quietly building a case to protect a critter closer to home, one whose existence also seems gravely threatened by a warming world.

A pocket-sized member of the rabbit family with a distinctive squeak and large ears that frame dark eyes and a button nose, the American pika lives on rocky slopes high in alpine mountain ranges from the Sierra Nevada to the Rockies. Sporting a thick gray-brown coat, the pika does not hibernate and so maintains a high internal temperature to survive frigid winters. Because it can’t turn off its heater, the animal can die in the summer if its body temperature increases by as little as 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 F).

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Paul Krugman: Who Cooked the Planet?

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Op-Ed Columnist - Who Cooked the Planet? - NYTimes.com:

By Paul Krugman

July 25, 2010

"...[I]t wasn’t the science, the scientists, or the economics that killed action on climate change. What was it?

The answer is, the usual suspects: greed and cowardice.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money."

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Greenland glacier melt could contribute to rise in sea level

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:57:00 +0000

NASA eyeballs glacial melt in Greenland - Capital Weather Gang:

"...The Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier, one of the largest glaciers in Greenland, swiftly lost a 2.7-square mile chunk of ice between July 6 and 7, NASA announced late last week. The ice loss pushed the point where the glacier meets the ocean, known as the 'calving front,' nearly one mile farther inland in a single day. According to the space agency, the new calving front location is the farthest inland on record..."

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Photos Reveal Receding Himalaya Glaciers

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:16:00 +0000

Lens Blog - NYTimes.com:

7/16/10

New York Times

“...There’s a lot of people who either don’t understand climate change that well and the effects that it’s having, or they want to deny the effect it’s having. These pictures are worth a thousand words. We haven’t done anything to them except print them.”

David Breashears,, a senior fellow with the Center on U.S.-China Relations, referred to the exhibition, “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya,” which opened this week at the Asia Society in Manhattan. Mr. Breashears is best known for directing the Imax film, “Everest.” In the exhibition, pictures taken as early as 1899 are placed alongside recreations by Mr. Breashears, who photographed the same places from precisely the same vantage, beginning in 2007."

See photos of receding glaciers

Polar bear in Yukon River may have hitched ride on melting ice

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:08:00 +0000

The Tundra Drums - Polar bear in Yukon River may have hitched ride on melting ice:

Published on July 22nd, 2010

By ALEX DEMARBAN

"...Residents in a lower Yukon River village far from typical polar bear habitat say they've seen plenty of bears, but nothing like the big, white beast that floated in the river on Tuesday.

Isaiah Charles, a state Department of Fish and Game technician, said he didn't believe the rumors that a polar bear had arrived near town, until his sister called from downriver and said she was watching it.

Charles, with his aunt and nephew in tow, jumped in a boat and traveled for 20 minutes from Emmonak. They saw the bear's head in the water.

'Sure enough it was a real polar bear,' he said. 'It was just hanging out on a sandbar, like, in the water just hanging out. It got maybe 40 yards away.'"

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The BP oil spill and religious environmental ethics

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:54:00 +0000

On Faith Panelists Blog: The BP oil spill and religious environmental ethics - Valerie Elverton Dixon:

Washington Post

BY VALERIE ELVERTON DIXON | JUNE 2, 2010; 6:07 PM ET

"...the tragedy of the BP oil spill is a moral crisis that is the result of human estrangement from the Divine, from each other and from nature. A holistic spiritual morality, an environmental ethics rooted in religion can help us find our way back to wholeness and to holiness."

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World still heading for 3 degree Celsius warming

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:49:00 +0000

AFP: World still heading for 3 degree Celsius warming: study:

"BONN — The world is careering towards three degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by 2100 despite headline-making promises to curb carbon emissions, a study released at UN talks here said on Thursday.

'The current pledges and loopholes give us a virtual certainty of exceeding 1.5 C (2.7 F), with global warming very likely exceeding 2 C (3.6 F) and a more than 50-percent chance of exceeding 3 C (5.4 F) by 2100,' said Bill Hare of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Around 120 countries have signed up to voluntary action on greenhouse gases under last December's Copenhagen Accord, which aims to limit warming since pre-industrial times to 2.0 C.

Scientists caution there is no consensus on what is a safe level for warming, and some say a rise of even 2.0 C could still have far-reaching risks for ice and snow cover and rainfall patterns"

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Melting permafrost threatens Arctic housing projects

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:46:00 +0000

Melting permafrost threatens Arctic housing projects - CTV News:

"MONTREAL — An Arctic community that has seen its fire hall sink and roads buckle in the melting permafrost is now shifting future building projects away from town.

The effect of vanishing permafrost -- soil normally frozen year round -- is now being felt across Canada's North, and the Quebec village of Salluit is just one of many Arctic towns trying to adapt to an increasingly warmer climate.

Rising temperatures are being blamed for natural disturbances in the North, such as the rapidly eroding coastline of Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., and unprecedented floods that knocked out two bridges in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.

Salluit even considered relocating the whole town. One of Quebec's northernmost communities, Salluit saw its local fire station sink into the softening ground a year after it opened.

Across town, paved roads have crumpled, foundations of buildings have cracked and now even summertime grave-digging isn't what it used to be."

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Voters to decide on California global warming law

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:44:00 +0000

This is so wrong.

The Associated Press: Voters to decide on California global warming law

(AP) – 6-23-10

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An initiative that seeks to suspend California's landmark global warming law until unemployment drops will appear on the November election ballot.

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen certified the initiative on Tuesday. It's the sixth proposition to qualify for the ballot.

The California Jobs Initiative seeks to delay the state's global warming law until the unemployment rate falls from its current rate of 12.4 percent to 5.5 percent or lower and stays there for a year.

The 2006 law seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California and impose new requirements on utilities, manufacturers and other businesses.

Oil companies funded the drive to put the initiative on the ballot. It is backed by business groups who say the law could cost jobs and lead to higher energy prices.

Best Confession of the Month (so far)

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:42:00 +0000

Living Well, Living Green: Leilani Munter, Race Car Eco-ista:

cross-posted from Savings.com blog

"..Leilani Munter encapsulates the ecoista’s dilemma: It’s all well and good to want to live sustainably, until you work in an industry that doesn’t share your views.

What are you supposed to do, quit your job?

Leilani takes this concept to an extreme most of us can’t even imagine. That’s because she is--if you haven’t already guessed from the photos--a race car driver. Not just any race car driver, mind you, Leilani has serious on-track cred. She’s the fourth woman in history to race in the Indy Pro Series. She set the record for the highest finish for a female driver in the history of the Texas Motor Speedway when she finished fourth in 2006. Sports Illustrated named her one of the top 10 female racecar drivers in the world.

The girl really can’t drive 55. More like 200. But all that speed takes a serious environmental toll--and Leilani knows it. When I asked her what her eco-sin was she answered, “That’s easy: My race car.”

But Leilani also sees her profession as an opportunity to inspire positive change in the 100 million fans that make racing the number-one spectator sport in America. “If I was just another vegetarian, tree hugging, biology graduate asking people to give up meat and stop using plastic bags, I don’t know how many people would be listening to me,” Leilani told us. “But because I drive a race car, I have an ability to reach a new audience of people that most environmentalists are probably not talking to.”

In addition to talking the talk with 100 million people, Leilani walks it: The longtime vegetarian and self-proclaimed “Carbon-Free Girl” adopts an acre of rainforest for every race she runs. She regularly races in alternative fuel vehicles, like the Ford hydrogen fuel cell car she drove in last year’s VS Viking Rally in Norway. And she’s the first Ambassador of the National Wildlife Federation."

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Koch Industries top funder of Climate denial

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:51:00 +0000

Koch Industries top funder of Climate denial and Obstruction : Indybay (4/2/10)

"A new Greenpeace report uncovers the multimillion dollar funding and intense lobbying against climate science and climate action by Koch Industries, that eclipses the traditional funding for climate deniers from ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies."

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Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps - TIME

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:47:00 +0000

Melting ice caps will wreck my home... and you're worried about how much it's going to cost YOU?

Rev. Paul R. Bear

Putting a Price Tag on the Melting Ice Caps - TIME:

"...Reports about the melting ice caps are distressing, but for the most part climate change remains abstract. The poor polar bear has been trotted out as the tangible face of global warming so often that we're beginning to see 'polar bear fatigue.' How about bringing the effects of Arctic melt close to home, as in what it will cost? A new study does just that, and the results are alarming, not just for Arctic dwellers but for all of us. According to lead author Eban Goodstein, Ph.D., over the next 40 years Arctic ice melt will take an economic toll of between $2.4 trillion and $24 trillion. Unless we change course — and fast."

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Polar Bears Are the Least of Our Arctic Worries - Newsweek.com

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:59:00 +0000

Polar Bears Are the Least of Our Arctic Worries - Newsweek.com

Uh, excuse me? Rumors of my extinction should not be discussed in my presence. You wreck my habitat and then you want to discuss "how to divvy up the globe's truly last frontier," while I'm still alive and kicking? Not bloody likely, mate.

Sigh.

"...Scientists have declared that both of the world's ice caps are in perilous states; the Arctic is more vulnerable than the Antarctic because of added climate volatility at the top of the planet. The intuitive victims are the polar bear, and further down the line, the world's grandchildren. Those, certainly, are the victims who have received the most attention.

But in his new book, After the Ice, Alun Anderson makes the insightful case that consequences cast too far into the future ignore geopolitical factors of today. Water where ice once stood changes global trade routes and national-security calculations, especially between countries like the U.S and Russia, whose icy relationship used to be separated by the expanse of the great Pacific. Just this summer, for example, the sea above Russia opened to international commercial shipping as the ice melted."

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Yes, so much for you all to figure out. Oh goody, we can run a boat through the Artic!! But who owns the shipping lanes?

Better get some more lawyers involved. You'll be hearing from mine.

Rev. Paul R. Bear, Blogger-in-Chief
www.CarbonConfession.org

Ekklesia:> Theology & the "Green Apocalypse"

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:45:00 +0000

Theology and the ‘green apocalypse’

By Juan Michel

23 Dec 2009

Ekklesia

"...The message that God loves the world and every creature on earth "has been the heart-beat of the ecumenical movement facing climate change", said Tveit, recalling the long history of WCC concern with ecological matters. In an ecumenical perspective, the concern for creation has always been linked to the concern for justice and peace. "It is not a matter of saying this is a planet for some of us", said Tveit, "this is a planet for all of us".

This point was also stressed by Jesse Mugambi, from the University of Nairobi and a member of the WCC working group on climate change. "The world is a world in which we are all relatives, but somewhere along the line we decided […] to treat each other as strangers", he said.

Mugambi explained that in Africa climate change is already causing both severe droughts on the one hand, and flooding on the other.. With the help of maps he showed that those parts of the continent rich in water and cultivable land are also the areas of greatest conflict. Such a conflict "has nothing to do with ethnicity, it has to do with resources."

For Mugambi, the role of Christian faith and religion in general – through its leaders, theologians and ethicists – is that of "bringing us back to the norms" that can contribute to address a challenge like climate change.

"We are not talking about 'helping' African countries", Mugambi said. "It is not a matter of 'help', but of survival for all of us."

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Caribou herds disappearing

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed
By CHARLES J. HANLEY (AP) – 1 day ago

ON THE PORCUPINE RIVER TUNDRA, Yukon Territory — Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it's not just here.

Across the tundra 1,500 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, Canada's Beverly herd, numbering more than 200,000 a decade ago, can barely be found today.

Halfway around the world in Siberia, the biggest aggregation of these migratory animals, of the dun-colored herds whose sweep across the Arctic's white canvas is one of nature's matchless wonders, has shrunk by hundreds of thousands in a few short years.

From wildlife spectacle to wildlife mystery, the decline of the caribou — called reindeer in the Eurasian Arctic — has biologists searching for clues, and finding them.

They believe the insidious impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is decimating a species that has long numbered in the millions and supported human life in Earth's most inhuman climate.

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Walrus populations threatened by climate change

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:23:00 +0000

Climate - Act for Our Future
Walrus populations threatened by climate change
from World Wildlife Fund

The retreating sea ice of the Alaskan and Russian Arctic is forcing walruses ashore, with deadly consequences for calves. Our WWF team in Alaska has obtained high definition footage along the Arctic shorelines showing the dramatic impact climate change is having on walruses.

In recent years, as Arctic sea ice has receded far from the Russian and Alaskan coasts, walruses – including many females and their calves – have been forced to take refuge on land, congregating in large numbers at “haul outs” along the coasts. These mass congregations can lead to violent stampedes, which are particularly dangerous to young walruses. Scientists also report a recent rise in the number of orphaned calves at sea after becoming separated from their mothers.

An investigative team led by the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued preliminary findings explaining the mass death of young walrus calves that is captured on the WWF footage.The footage shows some of the more than 100 walrus carcasses that were spotted on September 14 by US Geological Survey researchers flying near Icy Cape, southwest of Barrow, Alaska.

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Eco-sin hits the news

noreply@blogger.com (Fr. Paul R. Bear) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:36:00 +0000

The Baltimore Sun looks at eco-sin!! Some good confessions and testifying going on here.

"What's your biggest eco sin?
Baltimore Sun
September 18, 2009

"Kim Walker here with another guest post: I wrote earlier today about being initially hesitant about switching to a low flow showerhead. Water (over)usage is my biggest eco sin. And every time I soak in a hot bath after a long day at work, I swear it'll be my last."

"We all try to lessen our footprint, but everyone has a weakness or two."

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