I don't know about you folks but within the past year so much info about how we are fucking up our world has been released and not much is being done it seems. I think we (especially americans) have grown too complacent with our lifestyles and no one is willing to switch things up...i keep thinking..what the fuck is it going to take for people to wake up?
the ice caps are melting...we've lost about half the population of honey-bees over the past few decades (which we need for foods)...and i don't know if its coincidence or not but we've had like no fuckin rain this year in l.a....i've never seen it this dry in my 23 years of living here.... and austrailia is in one of the worst droughts they've ever had (the suicide rate there is supposedly skyrocketing, especially among farmers)...even people in africa are scared to shits cause their lakes are being depleted (and once the lakes are gone, the inland africans will be gone)
sorry for bitchin' and rantin'....but as paul mooney would say, i just had my human being wakeup call...
PROPS to Obama for being in Detroit and speaking out on the car manufacturers who he says is to blame. instead of focusing on fuel efficient vehicles they were trying to build bigger, faster ones...he just earned a point
Migratory birds, whales confused by warming: U.N.
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
Mon May 7, 12:37 PM ET
BONN (Reuters) - Birds, whales and other migratory creatures are suffering from global warming that puts them in the wrong place at the wrong time, a U.N. official told 166-nation climate talks on Monday.
A warmer climate disrupts the biological clocks of migratory species including bats, dolphins, antelopes or turtles, said Lahcen el Kabiri, deputy head of the U.N.'s Bonn-based Convention on Migratory Species.
"They are the most visible warning signs -- indicators signaling the dramatic changes to our ecosystems caused in part by climate change," he told delegates on the opening day of a May 7-18 U.N. meeting searching for new ways to offset warming.
Many creatures are mistiming their migrations, or failing to bother as changes between seasons become less clear. The shifts make them vulnerable to heatwaves, droughts or cold snaps.
Among birds, for instance, cranes are starting to spend the winter in Germany rather than fly south to Spain or Portugal. "A harsh winter could decimate the population," he said.
Migratory species are particularly vulnerable because they need separate breeding, wintering and stop-over sites. Changes to any one of the habitats can put them at risk.
Global warming, blamed by almost all experts on a build-up of gases from burning fossil fuels, adds stresses for migratory species such as pollution, overfishing or destruction of habitats on land for farming, roads or towns.
FISH, PLANKTON
"Climate change affects all migratory species," El Kabiri, a Moroccan, told Reuters. He said that whales were sometimes in the wrong place to feed on fish and plankton which were thriving closer to the poles because of warmer oceans.
In the Arctic, forests could take over from tundra, complicating life for many birds that nest on the ground and have to fly from Africa to find sites with few predators. Warmer weather could bring predators north.
Rises in sea levels could swamp habitats for many shore birds. El Kabiri said governments should cooperate more to create and protect international migration corridors.
Birds are sometimes hatching early in a warmer climate, but sometimes insect food can flourish even earlier. Pied flycatcher birds in Europe, for instance, have suffered from a lack of caterpillars for their chicks.
The Convention on Migratory Species and the U.N.'s African Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds Agreement said they will highlight the problems for birds and climate change around the world with a series of events on May 12-13.
the ice caps are melting...we've lost about half the population of honey-bees over the past few decades (which we need for foods)...and i don't know if its coincidence or not but we've had like no fuckin rain this year in l.a....i've never seen it this dry in my 23 years of living here.... and austrailia is in one of the worst droughts they've ever had (the suicide rate there is supposedly skyrocketing, especially among farmers)...even people in africa are scared to shits cause their lakes are being depleted (and once the lakes are gone, the inland africans will be gone)
sorry for bitchin' and rantin'....but as paul mooney would say, i just had my human being wakeup call...
PROPS to Obama for being in Detroit and speaking out on the car manufacturers who he says is to blame. instead of focusing on fuel efficient vehicles they were trying to build bigger, faster ones...he just earned a point
Migratory birds, whales confused by warming: U.N.
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
Mon May 7, 12:37 PM ET
BONN (Reuters) - Birds, whales and other migratory creatures are suffering from global warming that puts them in the wrong place at the wrong time, a U.N. official told 166-nation climate talks on Monday.
A warmer climate disrupts the biological clocks of migratory species including bats, dolphins, antelopes or turtles, said Lahcen el Kabiri, deputy head of the U.N.'s Bonn-based Convention on Migratory Species.
"They are the most visible warning signs -- indicators signaling the dramatic changes to our ecosystems caused in part by climate change," he told delegates on the opening day of a May 7-18 U.N. meeting searching for new ways to offset warming.
Many creatures are mistiming their migrations, or failing to bother as changes between seasons become less clear. The shifts make them vulnerable to heatwaves, droughts or cold snaps.
Among birds, for instance, cranes are starting to spend the winter in Germany rather than fly south to Spain or Portugal. "A harsh winter could decimate the population," he said.
Migratory species are particularly vulnerable because they need separate breeding, wintering and stop-over sites. Changes to any one of the habitats can put them at risk.
Global warming, blamed by almost all experts on a build-up of gases from burning fossil fuels, adds stresses for migratory species such as pollution, overfishing or destruction of habitats on land for farming, roads or towns.
FISH, PLANKTON
"Climate change affects all migratory species," El Kabiri, a Moroccan, told Reuters. He said that whales were sometimes in the wrong place to feed on fish and plankton which were thriving closer to the poles because of warmer oceans.
In the Arctic, forests could take over from tundra, complicating life for many birds that nest on the ground and have to fly from Africa to find sites with few predators. Warmer weather could bring predators north.
Rises in sea levels could swamp habitats for many shore birds. El Kabiri said governments should cooperate more to create and protect international migration corridors.
Birds are sometimes hatching early in a warmer climate, but sometimes insect food can flourish even earlier. Pied flycatcher birds in Europe, for instance, have suffered from a lack of caterpillars for their chicks.
The Convention on Migratory Species and the U.N.'s African Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds Agreement said they will highlight the problems for birds and climate change around the world with a series of events on May 12-13.
