Re: global warming study released

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

Last Wednesday, I heard that this ocean level
rising is seen as a way to inundate those pesky
blue precincts along our coasts!!!  ;-)

Then only the upper mid-west would have any blue.

At 2:21 PM -0500 11/8/04, John Denker wrote:
> Quoting JOHN HEILPRIN (AP):
>
> >  Scientists say changes in the earth's climate from human influences
> >  are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced
> >  by widespread melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice and rising
> >  permafrost temperatures.
> >
> >  A study released Monday said the annual average amount of sea ice in
> >  the Arctic has decreased by about 8 percent in the past 30 years,
> >  resulting in the loss of 386,100 square miles of sea ice — an area
> >  bigger than Texas and Arizona combined.
> ....
> >  "The bottom line is that the Arctic is warming now, much more rapidly
> >  than the rest of the globe, and it's impacting people directly,"
>
> The article is at:
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=10&u=/ap/20041108/ap_on_sc/arctic_warming