Saturday, March 03, 2007

Scientists start polar study amid global warming | International News | Reuters.com

Scientists start polar study amid global warming

Can we have a correction please?
There is no evidence that the Antarctic is getting warmer
This story implies both poles are warming.


More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming.

About 3,000 children will build snowmen in Oslo, top scientists will meet in Paris and researchers will gather on a polar research vessel in Cape Town harbor in South Africa as part of ceremonies starting International Polar Year (IPY).

During the U.N.-backed year, about 50,000 people will be involved in 228 projects such as studying marine life in the Antarctic, mapping how winds carry pollutants to the Arctic, or examining the health of people, polar bears or penguins.
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David Carlson, director of the IPY Program Office, said the icy ends of the earth had been overlooked too long. 'This part of the planet has its problems and it needs to get a higher level of attention,' he told Reuters.

Many scientists say that warming of the Arctic, where indigenous hunting cultures and animals are under threat from receding ice, may be a portent of damaging shifts elsewhere on the planet linked to global warming.

And a melt of"

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