Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice melts (CNN video)

[brentspeak]

The last line from this report is particularly chilling: "Some scientists believe the Arctic will be ice-free in only five years."

http://www.yahoo.com/s/958183

[YOY]

1. USA! USA! USA! Drill Baby! DRILL! Please your Skinemax Sexy Librarian!!!

Do it loud enough to drown out the obvious damage you are causing!

[Lorien]

2. And yet the environment (a GOP weakness) isn't even a TOPIC in this election

We're oblivious to our own destruction.

[stuntcat]

5. and it's the one issue..

If retardicans wanted to insure my vote it's the one issue I'd consider changing sides for.
I'm not sure if there's ANY way to cast votes for this from now on.

[IndyOp]

3. Mitakuye Oyasin. (For All My Relations, I Pray). (n/t)

We are going to lose them. My heart goes with them.

Polar bear eating a seal:

[eppur_se_muova]

4. more from CNN ...

By Marsha Walton
CNN

(CNN) -- Summer is over in the northern hemisphere, but it's been another chilling season for researchers who study Arctic sea ice.

"It's definitely a bad report. We did pick up little bit from last year, but this is over 30 percent below what used to be normal," said Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

This past summer, the Arctic sea ice dwindled to its second lowest level. Arctic sea ice is usually 1 to 3 meters, or as much as 9 feet thick. It grows during autumn and winter and shrinks in the spring and summer.

Scientists have monitored sea ice conditions for about 50 years with the help of satellites. Changes in the past decade have been alarming to climate researchers and oceanographers.

"It is the second lowest on record. ... If anything, it is reinforcing the long-term trend. We are still losing the ice cover at a rate of 10 percent per decade now, and that is quite an increase from five years ago," Meier said. "We are still heading toward an ice cover that is going to melt completely in the summertime in the Arctic."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/09/23/arctic.ice/index.html