Walruses Displaced by Global Heating

Add walruses to the list of animals profoundly impacted the shrinking arctic ice cap. Receding Ice Displaces Alaska Walrus The strongest in-your-face evidence to date, IMHO, is the alarming shrinkage of the ice cap that has exceeded worst case scenarios. Climate change will have the largest impacts in the extreme northern latitudes - a small change in global average temperature will have big impacts in the arctic. Except, change that sentence because it's no longer speculative, it is happening now. This year. "Arctic ice melted to the smallest extent in human history - a loss that stunned scientists and exceeded worst-case scenarios in climate models". Polar bear and walrus updates AlaskaReport






From the AP story: "This Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 photo provided by the North Slope Borough shows a young male walrus resting on the beach in Barrow, Alaska. Scientists and conservationists are expressing alarm at the appearance of thousands of walrus on Alaska's northwest coast, a dramatic demonstration of the effects of diminished Arctic sea ice brought on by global warming. (AP Photo/North Slope Borough, Noe Texeira)"



Changes in Arctic Sea Ice: Consequences for whales

Don't give a rip about polar bears or walruses? Think they're just cute, but not really necessary? Think of them as the canaries in the mine. The canaries are dying. Now.