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Our sick seas 我們的海洋生病了
Scientists are documenting drastic, disturbing changes in the oceans
By Monique Beaudin, Canwest News ServiceApril 5, 2009
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A tourist looks at icebergs and ice floating in the waters of Greenland's Disko Bay. Ice caps are melting faster than scientists had thought possible, raising ocean levels and altering their salinity. Photograph by: Bob Strong, Reuters, Canwest News Service |
Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis
By Alanna Mitchell McClelland & Stewart, $32.99
Even if you think you understand what humanity faces in the enormous challenge that is climate change, reading Alanna Mitchell's new book Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis will make you realize how little humans understand about our impact on the planet.
Large swaths of the planet's population now accept -- after years of warning by scientists -- that the burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal is pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and slowly raising the Earth's temperature. On land, we are already feeling the impacts of global warming: rising sea levels, melting glaciers and disappearing species.
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