A September 2005 report revealed that the polar ice cap has shrunk by more than 20 percent since 1979, losing an area the size of Colorado in the preceding year alone.


Recently I have joined the StopGlobalWarming.org throught the Internet. And today, I have received an email about "HELP SAVE POLAR BEAR FROM GLOBAL WARMING". By showing your support, it can urge the Bush administration to hold public hearings so Americans across the country can express their support for protecting the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act.



http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=140481222007



Global Warming: The Final Verdict
by: Robin McKie 22 January 2007

And there is a nws about Global Warming. A draft copy of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that it is the work of several thousand climate experts who have widely differing views about how greenhouse gases will have their effect.

"Although the final wording of the report is still being worked on, the draft indicates that scientists now have their clearest idea so far about future climate changes, as well as about recent events. It points out that:
12 of the past 13 years were the warmest since records began;

Ocean temperatures have risen at least three kilometres beneath the surface;

Glaciers, snow cover and permafrost have decreased in both hemispheres;

Sea levels are rising at the rate of almost 2mm a year;

Cold days, nights and frost have become rarer while hot days, hot nights and heatwaves have become more frequent.

And the cause is clear, say the authors: 'It is very likely that [man-made] greenhouse gas increases caused most of the average temperature increases since the mid-20th century,' says the report."

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=140481222007


It is indisputable that "We are the masters of our own destruction". Global warming is the matter of you and me. It's never too late to get a start to conserve and protect our environment. I know and so I do.