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Cries of Nature

Part 1 — The Signs of Global Warming

…Continued

Across the US 82 large wildfires, the majority of which cover over 100 acres, have been burning on more than 1.6 million acres in 11 states:

Arkansas	Oklahoma
California	Oregon
Idaho	South Dakota
Mississippi	Texas
Montana	Wyoming
Nevada

A firefighter recently died from injuries suffered on August 20 2000 while fighting fires in a pine plantation. The preliminary fatality record for the year in the US currently stands at eight firefighters. 

Solar Flares

After traveling 93 million miles, the Suns energy hits the upper atmosphere of the Earth. A third of the energy is reflected back into space, while the remaining two thirds warm the planet and drive the weather engine. Major sunspot activity and the subsequent solar flares send electromagnetically charged particles with the solar winds that strike the Earth.

During especially violent episodes, the Earth's magnetosphere is energized causing geomagnetic storms that can knock out power grids, destroy satellites and heat the Earth. These fierce electrical storms can rage for several days and cut a swathe of destruction across the planet.

On July 14 2000, a solar flare erupted with over four times the intensity of any other flare detected since the launch of SOHO in 1995 and ACE in 1997. A full-halo coronal mass ejection erupted on 9 August 2000 followed by a partial halo eruption on 10 August 2000. This activity appears to have been caused by sunspot group 9115. The resulting northern lights were spotted as far south as Los Angeles, CA (latitude 35 degrees). Northern lights are usually confined to high latitudes (> 50 degrees). The auroras were so intense that they shined through the competing glow of Southern California's urban lights.  James Westlake, a professor of astronomy at the Colorado Mountain College in Steamboat Springs said, "It was a surprise. Bright red, green and blue curtains and fountains of light seemed to pour out of the top of Hahn's Peak."

Carbon Dioxide

In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency released a report saying that carbon dioxide concentrations over the past ten years has decreased 36 percent. This is probably a result of the ban on CFCs and other ozone-destroying chemicals that has been in effect since 1996.

Meanwhile, some scientists are predicting a tripling of concentrations by 2100. Despite the numerous disagreements, there are many countries still taking the problem seriously enough and taking steps to decrease the release of this harmful gas.

Australia has generally been known as an environmental leader, but their opposition of limits to greenhouse gas emissions from the Kyoto negotiations has changed that world view dramatically. Australia does not want to help because they have a $6.5 billion coal export industry.

Steve Wofsy of Harvard University is co-chair of the Carbon and Climate Working Group of the US Global Change Research Program in Washington. He and many others are of the belief that something is missing from scientists understanding of the way carbon is stored on land. The estimated 200 - 300 million tons of carbon stored in trees each year is apparently too small by a factor of two or three.

Wofsy recently said, "We don't really have the basic science to understand the impacts [of CO2] and long-term effects." Chris Field of the Science Steering Panel of the US Carbon Cycle Research Program also agrees. However, new research conducted by NASA, may be able to end the debate on the effects of carbon dioxide.

Wildlife

Jennifer Morgan, director of the World Wide Fund for Natures climate change campaign said recently, "GW means a horrifying future for nature. World leaders must give top priority to reducing levels of carbon pollution." The WWF report says many plant and animal species will not be able to keep up with the constant and rapid modifications of their habitats. Those species that do so successfully are likely to be weeds and pests that are already able to move and adapt much faster than most other species.

The WWF also believe that a third of the worlds habitat is under threat from global warming and could either disappear or change beyond recognition by the end of this century. "This is not some slow, controlled change we're talking about. Its fast, its unpredictable and its unprecedented during human civilization" said Adam Markham, a co-author of the report.

Many scientists believe that climate change was responsible for the extinction of the saber-tooth tiger and the woolly mammoth.

Birds such as the Great Tit in Scotland and the Mexican Jay in Arizona have been discovered to be breeding earlier in the year. In Europe, butterflies are shifting their ranges to the north. A long term study from the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab has shown that yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado are emerging 38 days earlier from their hibernation than they did 23 years ago. However, chipmunks in central Colorado are sleeping in up to 27 days longer than they did 26 years ago. Such bizarre alterations in the hibernation timetables of these creatures seem to be related to the local climate changes. However, the divergent behavior between species is confusing ecologists.

Polar Ice

The World Meteorological Organization says the biggest hole in the ozone layer was recorded in 1998, when it covered 4.63 million square miles. In 1999, it had shrunk to 3.86 million square miles. It appears that the damage is already done, and it will be decades before nature is able to fix the hole to any noticeable extent.

For the first time in 50 million years, visitors to the North Pole can see something no human has ever witnessed. There is currently a mile-wide stretch of water at the top of the world. "I don't know if anybody in history ever got to 90 degrees north to be greeted by water, not ice," said Malcolm C McKenna, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History. Visitors saw ivory sea gulls flying overhead; the first time ornithologists said they had ever been sighted at the pole. Just recently, a 183-mile long and 23-mile wide chunk of the arctic glacier broke off from the mainland. What is happening to the poles?

Satellite studies have already suggested that the ice cover in the Arctic has thinned by more than 40% over the past 50 years.

Dr. D Andrew Rothrok of the University of Washington and his colleagues published a report in the December 1 1999 issue of Geophysical Research Letters. Their report analyzed decades of data from the Arctic Sea gathered from three nuclear submarines. The USS Pargo in 1993, USS Pogy in 1996, and USS Archerfish in 1997. They concluded that the average thickness of the ice has thinned by approximately 40% since measurements were made in 1858.

NASA scientists flew over Greenland in 1993,1994,1998 and 1999 with airborne lasers to measure the thickness of Greenland's ice sheet. The ice sheet covers about 85% of the island and is now believed to be thinning around the edges at a rate of about three feet per year.

Without the current surface area of the ice sheet, more heat will be absorbed into the Earth. The white ice cover reflects a significant volume of sunlight, without it the darker seas will heat up.

It Is We Who Need Protection

Over 2,500 of the worlds leading experts are telling us that global warming is already occurring. While the causes are abundant, scientific agreements are scarce.

The Earth is a cosmic organism that has survived many prehistoric meteor impacts more devastating than any global warming damage we can unleash. The Earth will survive, the human species will not. As part of the natural healing processes, conditions on Earth will deteriorate until we are dead. Then the Earth will begin to heal in earnest, only after we have gone.

It is not the Earth and nature we should be trying to protect, it is ourselves. We appear to have lost our primordial instincts of self-preservation and instead trust the argumentative inaction's of science. The warning signs are all around us and are growing stronger every year. Meanwhile, our scientists are divided into two groups that can be summarized as follows:

• Global Warming is a natural process and is not caused by our carbon dioxide emissions.
• Global Warming is the result of our carbon dioxide emissions.

A new NASA study is now proving that both sides of this argument could be right, and both could be wrong. In the second chapter to this article, I will show that the truth, like most things in life, probably lies somewhere in the middle.

Regardless of what you believe the cause of global warming is, something is fundamentally wrong with the health of our planet. There is no single cause, there is no single answer, but the the many signs of impending catastrophe can no longer be ignored or forestalled with studies.

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