BS: No Climate Change Here! Ummm...

Subject: BS: No Climate Change Here! Ummm...
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Sep 10 - 09:54 PM

"ANCHORAGE – Tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore on the coast of the Chukchi Sea because the sea ice they normally rest on has melted.

"Federal scientists say this massive move to shore by walruses is unusual in the United States. But it has happened at least twice before, in 2007 and 2009. In those years Arctic sea ice also was at or near record low levels.

"The population of walruses stretches "for one mile or more. This is just packed shoulder-to-shoulder," U.S. Geological Survey biologist Anthony Fischbach said in a telephone interview. He estimated their number at tens of thousands."

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"Loss of sea ice in the Chukchi this summer has surprised scientists because last winter lots of old established sea ice floated into the region, said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. But that has disappeared.

"Although last year was a slight improvement over previous years, Serreze says there's been a long-term decline that he blames on global warming.

"We'll likely see more summers like this," he said. "There is no sign of Arctic recovery."


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