Barley Now Growing In Greenland For 1st Time Since 15th Century

[hatrack]

Europe

In Greenland the barley is growing for the first time since the Middle Ages. In Britain gardeners were warned this week that the English country garden will be a thing of the past within the next 20 years. In Italy skiers were told yesterday that melting glaciers will mean an end to their pastime unless they can get above 2,000 metres.

Even those enjoying the warmer temperatures in unpredictable bursts by venturing into the sea have been confronted by swarms of jellyfish, who have flourished in record numbers in Europe in the warmer waters. Those same waters are rising in Venice, prompting arguments over costly plans to seal off the lagoon from the sea. The prospect of flooded squares on the scale of Venice's Piazza San Marco is driving plans to expand and reinforce the Thames flood barrier. In Holland the battle has been lost and 500,000 hectares, an area more than twice the size of greater London, will be strategically flooded instead and people will move to floating homes.

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In Alaska there has been millions of dollars of damage to buildings and roads caused by melting permafrost. The region has been blighted by the world's largest outbreak of spruce bark beetles, normally confined to warmer climes. Rising sea levels have forced the relocation of Inuit villages and polar bears have been drowning because of shrinking sea ice. The caribou population is in steep decline due to earlier spring and the west is suffering one of the worst droughts for 500 years.

In Louisiana about 1 million acres of wetlands have been lost to sea-level rise. In the north-west there has been dramatic shrinkage of glaciers in Glacier National Park and the South Cascade Glacier in Washington is at smallest size ever in the last 6,000 years. In the Rockies there has been a 16 per cent reduction in snowpack. Spring snow melt begins nine days earlier.
Hawaii has seen first large-scale coral bleaching. And scientists now believe that the strength of hurricanes that strike the south-east and the Caribbean is linked to climate change.

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http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=60639

[hobbit709]

1. BU T! BUT!

There's no evidence of climate change-or evidence of anything else in "fearless leaders" mind.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Damn, they'll probably interpret this to mean another sign of the

impending Apocalypse. Next item on the list: the red heifer.

[dtotire]

3. Global Warming

Here is an article on a potato farmer in Greenland

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,434356,00.html

[Javaman]

4. Bring on that cool rich Alaskan beer...nt

[Dead_Parrot]

5. I'll give them something to grow on those new islands... nt