According to the Washington Post today it appears that the effects of the "controversial" phenonoma called "Global Warming" (quotes provided by the Bush administration and the GOP) have become visible for those who live closest to the Arctic circle. Inuit hunters, who live on the fishing and hunting of bears and seals and fish have found their game moving farther north as the polar ice caps melt.
"The Inuit -- with homelands in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and northern Russia -- saw the signs of change everywhere. Metuq hauled his fishing shack onto the ice of Cumberland Sound last month, as he has every winter, confident it would stay there for three months. Three days later, he was astonished to see the ice break up, sweeping away his shack and $6,000 of turbot fishing gear.
In Nain, Labrador, hunter Simon Kohlmeister, 48, drove his snowmobile onto ocean ice where he had hunted safely for 20 years. The ice flexed. The machine started sinking. He said he was "lucky to get off" and grab his rifle as the expensive machine was lost. "Someday we won't have any snow," he said. "We won't be Eskimos.""
It's last call on our environment folks, and Mother Nature's saying "You don't have to go home but get your ass to Mars." Ever since I can remember Global Warming has been discussed as something as far away as the end of the universe but our industrialized countries have taken it on their selves to speed up this process by leaps and bounds. Now can I say, for certain what is happening? No. Unfortunately, because of this administration's gag on our leading environmental scientists, and especially NASA, even our research has become politically polarized, and the truth has been shoved aside. I love politics but there should be some things that supersede our governmental debate. How can we ever discuss this issue with any authority if evidence is hidden, purged, and ignored? Whether this be disastrous, or negligible is something I would love to look into, but like this issue of the the parenthood of Tom Cruise's child, I have no idea. All I can do is look to the past to realize the follies of the present and it doesn't take a historian to show you that when you turn science into a faith based process you are setting yourself up for a catastrophe.
There have been environmental disasters in the past. The eruption of volcanoes, Katrina, tsunamis, and the list goes on and on, but what sets us apart from our ancestors is the fountain of knowledge that we have at our fingertips. It is our leaders duty to put aside their personal issues to insure our safety, even when it means disengaging from their ideological and religious beliefs. When they are unable to do that it is time for the people for remove them from power. How much longer can we wait for serious and open discussion about climate change to begin? I suppose it will begin when Crawford, TX falls into the sea.
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