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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Alarm: ''Ice free North Pole by 2015''

from barentsobserver....

"Polar bears could be robbed of their hunting ground in the summer period and will hardly survive as the rising global temperature puts the Arctic sea ice in a death spiral. Polar bears totally depend on the sea ice when hunting seals.

Time is running out to limit the earth’s warming, warns the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a report issued this week. If the world’s energy production doesn’t change dramatically towards non-carbon uses before 2017 it will be harder and more expensive to meet the climate goals, says IEA in its World Energy Outlook 2011 report.

The globally agreed goal is to limit the temperature rise to 2°C. If the temperature rises more, climate changes could be irreversible. The world will lose the chance to limit global warming if it doesn’t take hard action in the next five years, reads the report"...........READ MORE

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