Users Online Now:
2,050
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
1,542,125
Pageviews Today:
2,561,666
Threads Today:
1,025
Posts Today:
18,178
11:49 PM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:Isis7:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzIxMTUxNjQwXzlEQzM5Mzgw] Arctic Tipping Points – is a multidisciplinary research project supported by the European Commission. Thirteen different institutions from Norway, Spain, Denmark, Poland, United Kingdom, France, Russian Federation, Greenland, Sweden and Germany are participating in research, data analysing and communication with the politician and the society. Warming of the northern hemisphere has resulted in a dramatic loss of sea ice, which again is a loss of critical habitat for ice-related species. Further, loss of ice may also change the global ocean current and causes major changes in the underwater light and turbulence environment affecting primary production and other key ecosystem functions. Warming of polar ecosystems allows the invasion by species opportunistically extending their latitudinal range and increasing temperature has a major impact on the physiological and life history traits of the organisms present. There is now mounting evidence that ecosystem response to certain types or magnitudes of external pressures (like e.g. climate changes) is often abrupt and non-linear, leading to a significant reorganization of system properties and processes. Such ecosystem changes are known as regime shifts and the non-linear responses are often initiated by qualitative changes in the structure or function of the ecosystem. They may be so fundamental that the impacted ecosystems respond to new pressures in completely different manners than the original ecosystem did. [b]‘‘Tipping point’’[/b] commonly refers to a critical level or threshold at which minor perturbations can qualitatively alter the state or development of a whole system. Arctic ecosystems are in particular sensitive to even minor changes in temperature and you will therefore expect that climate-driven threshold and tipping points lead to abrupt changes here much sooner compared to other ecosystems. Further, Arctic is warming about three times faster than the global rate and the Arctic ecosystems are likely to encounter severe ecological changes. In fact, the ongoing loss of the Arctic ice pack has been identified as one of the key tipping elements in the world climate system, making change in the Arctic significant on a global scale. Current models suggest that the Arctic Ocean will be largely ice-free in late summer within the next 30 years. The ATP-project is focusing on where and when climate-related tipping points are reached within the arctic area. By seven different work packages, ATP are addressing the questions through analysis of existing data, applying new experimental approaches and by modelling the dominating physical and biological components. ATP will further generate new knowledge of how changes in Arctic ecosystems may impact employment, income and lifestyle for the European Arctic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Tipping_Points Strange that China isn't included among them. hmmm [/quote]
Original Message
My girl friend has a D.E.D link on her laptop from the French Embassy. (She works at the embassy)
Crazy traffic on DED
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>