Antarctic 'on the edge of disaster'

[IndianaGreen]

Do you realize how many stories about the environmental crisis in the Antarctic and the Arctic have been posted on this forum in the last month? How come our MSM remains silent on this topic?

Antarctic 'on the edge of disaster'

Even a small increase in sea temperature could dramatically affect penguins, whales and a host of other marine creatures, warns scientist

Tim Radford, science editor
Saturday December 11, 2004
The Guardian

Warmer temperatures in the Antarctic could threaten penguins, whales, seals and a host of smaller creatures, a marine biologist warns in a lecture to be given at Christmas. Lloyd Peck, of the British Antarctic Survey, argues that even a small rise in sea temperatures could have dramatic consequences.

"Antarctic animals - in the sea especially - are very sensitive to climate change and they are the early warning system for the loss of species on the planet. We should be watching for those because climate change is probably going to get rid of them before it gets rid of other species," he says.

"We know things are changing; it is going to be really unpleasant; we are going to lose things - we just don't know how much."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1371404,00.html