"[T]he world's scientists have spoken, clearly and in one voice," said U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on the most recent report of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). After a rigorous multi-stage review process that includes 2,500 scientific expert reviewers, 800 contributing authors, and 450 lead authors representing 130 countries, the IPCC warns that "all countries" will be affected by climate change if carbon emissions continue to spiral. By 2100, global average surface temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees celsius, and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to an eventual rise in sea levels of up to 1.40 meters. With "strikingly" blunt language, the report reads like "a final warning to humanity," notes Time magazine. "What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future.
This is the defining moment," declared IPCC chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri.
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I am a fisherman in south eastern alaska, last year we had the largest snowfall in recorded history while there wasn't any snow in the alps. the water temp was and in july we expirienced fall like conditons with winds form the north instead of the south east, with cold rain and high winds, when the snow finally melted it created all outgoing tides and very little incoming tides, when the fish move in from the ocean. there was also micro climate changes. there could be 70 to 80 knt. winds of one point and then everywhere else it was flat calm. these conditions came from nowhere. there was an unusual algae in the water that persited all summer and fall - a thick green slime that made it hard for the fish to breathe tru their gills and made them swim deeper or not at all, staying off shore and not coming in to spawn. the traditional routes and shorelines that the fish migrate on also changed,these shorelines have been predictable for thousands of years. We watch the tides intently form minute to minute anticipating slight variences to set our nets at the right time and place.I have been fishing for thirty years and some of the older fisherman have been fisherman have been fishing for over 60 years have never expirienced anything like this. A small tide out of the tide book would appear as a 20 ft. tide and the holdovers didn't even happen with large minus's So far this year we are expirienceing a mild winter with hope for next season. we are keeping our fingers crossed that things might go back to normal.
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