New Warming Sign In Canadian Arctic - Higher Chlorophyll Levels In Algae

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“Unique” and “dramatic” changes are occurring in lakes near Clyde River. These changes have to do with an increase in the concentrations of chlorophyll, a group of green pigments found in organisms, which use sunlight to make food.

“What’s important about chlorophyll is that it’s an indicator of warming, and production and climate are really intimately linked,” said Neal Michelutti of the University of Alberta.

Neal and his team took sediments from six lakes around Clyde River and then examined these samples to gauge the levels of chlorophyll. They found “dramatic increases” in the concentrations of chlorophyll, starting around the year 1850, when in industrialization started in the South.

“These events appear synchronized with the record of recent climate change,” says the research report, published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. An increase in chlorophyll means the ice-free growing season is becoming longer and can support more and different forms of aquatic life: algae, plankton and insects.

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http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavut/51104_14.html

[Teaser]

1. scientific nonsense!

I'm tired of facts and shit. Give me some opinion about global warming. Preferably some UNFOUNDED opinions. Who wants to bother with all that science anyway, when we have opinion-oriented think tanks studying the problem?

[Angry Girl]

4. Since they cost so much, aren't paid-for opinions better?

Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank

ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe. Herewith, a representative overview.

http://motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html

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[bullimiami]

2. better for the soylent factories. dont eat the green chips though.

they are PEOPLE.

[slor]

3. I used to be scared for our children...

now I am scared for us.

[skids]

5. Ayep.

Well said.

[phantom power]

6. In a way, it will be comforting.

Now that it's happening, the suspense will be over. And we'll be so busy surviving, who will have time for worrying?

[Boomer]

7. Plus we get to gloat

While grubbing in the dirt for survival, I'm jolly well going to say "WE TOLD YOU SO!" every goddamn chance I can, to anyone who doubted global warming.