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 Assuming the current rate of ice shrinkage and accompanying weight loss in the Hudson Bay region, bears there could become so thin by 2012 they may no longer be able to reproduce, said Lara Hansen, chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The discussion is over!

Wegener and Continental Drift Theory

Since his ideas challenged scientists in geology, geophysics, zoogeography and paleontology, it demonstrates the reactions of different communities of scientists. The reactions by the leading authorities in the different disciplines was so strong and so negative that serious discussion of the concept stopped. One noted scientist, the geologist Barry Willis, seemed to be speaking for the rest when he said:

further discussion of it merely incumbers the literature and befogs the mind of fellow students.

Barry Willis’s and the other scientists wishes were fulfilled. Discussion did stop in the larger scientific community and students’ minds were not befogged. The world had to wait until the 1960’s for a wide discussion of the Continental Drift Theory to be restarted.

http://www.scientus.org/Wegener-Continental-Drift.html

“We very likely will live to see ice-free summers in the Arctic,” says Marika Holland, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “Or if we don’t live to see it, our children will.”

http://www.npr.org/

“Some of these shipping routes will become open much more reliably,” she says. “But we’re not close to that yet and we can’t really predict exactly when that’s going to happen.”

http://abcnews.go.com/

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Over the last 450,000 years, temperatures in Antarctica have regularly varied by twelve  degrees. Since satellites started monitoring Antarctica in 1979, the temperature has changed by zero degrees. The unmistakable fingerprint of man’s non-effect on the climate is completely clear.

The head of the Texas Public Utility Commission expressed concern Friday that a new federal air quality rule, set to take effect Jan. 1, will cause disruptions in electric service.

If implementation of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is not delayed, “I have no doubt in my mind that this rule will result in reliability issues and rolling outages in Texas,” Donna Nelson said at the start of the commission’s meeting.

The rule, issued in early July by the Environmental Protection Agency, would require substantial reductions in emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide at power plants in 27 states.

The EPA says the rule will save and prolong lives by reducing harmful smog and soot pollution. Gina McCarthy, an EPA assistant administrator, said

http://www.star-telegram.com/

 

It would be the first hurricane of the so far busy, but to date not destructive, 2011 Atlantic hurricane season.

http://www.reuters.com/

There have been no hurricanes, but it has been a busy hurricane season. All of the non-existent hurricanes have been coming back-to-back.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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