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  Thursday  May 30  2002    10: 33 PM

Environment

Global warming definitely caused by humans: CSIRO
The CSIRO says the evidence is overwhelming that global warming is the result of human activity, and will continue to accelerate if nothing is done.

thanks to DANGEROUSMETA!

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Signs of Thaw in a Desert of Snow
Scientists Begin to Heed Inuit Warnings of Climate Change in Arctic

And so it has come to be, the elders say, a time when icebergs are melting, tides have changed, polar bears have thinned and there is no meaning left in a ring around the moon. Scattered clouds blowing in a wind no longer speak to elders and hunters. Daily weather markers are becoming less predictable in the fragile Arctic as its climate changes.

Inuit elders and hunters who depend on the land say they are disturbed by what they are seeing swept in by the changes: deformed fish, caribou with bad livers, baby seals left by their mothers to starve. Just the other year, a robin appeared where no robin had been seen before. There is no word for robin in Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
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thanks to BookNotes

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Hydrogen Puts Iceland on Road to Oil- Free Future

Iceland, with its steaming geothermal power stations, already knows plenty about alternative energy.

Now this island of lava on the edge of the Arctic plans to become the world's first society to ditch fossil fuels entirely, relying instead on hydrogen made using the power of its roaring rivers and volcanoes.
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thanks to New World Disorder