Are you concerned about Global Warming?

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There is some interesting news regarding global warming. It seems that Switzerland has expanded border, because of melting glaciers in the High Alps. The Swiss government has approved shifting border 164 yds into Italian territory in some areas. The watershed which determined the border in 1942 has moved because of melting glaciers and snow fields so Switzerland has become a little bit larger, at Italys expense. The change has also been approved in Rome. No plans to change atlas at this time. The great Aletsch glacier is melting at temps that are 0.7 degrees celsius 1.3 farnenheit warmer than in the 19th century and the people there have been warned that a new danger threatens. For centuries, the people of southern Switzerland offered a sacred vow to live upstanding lives to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the glacier. Today, they are asking the Pope for permission to reverse their solem prayer. Glacer is ice, ice is water and water is life, without it the springs will dry up and the brooks evaporate. Alps and pastures will vanish and towns will die out. The melting glacier risks worsening floods in the valley (Valais region) and eventually loss of water supply. The glacier will continue to shrink and the warming of the last few decades hasn't even taken effect yet. This brings me to the saddest thing of all, to me, and that is the threat of extinction of the beautiful polar bear. Their artic habitat is melting away with the rising temps. The artic seals which the polar bear hunts for food and the sea ice that polar bears need to hunt them are becoming increasingly scarce. The U.S. geological survey has predicted that loss of summer sea ice could lead to the demise of 2/3 of the worlds polar bears by mid century including all of Alaskas polar bears. We all need to write to Secretary Selazar to ask him to reconsider reversing the Bush administrations policy of limiting the protection of polar bears from the impacts of global warming. There is a link that I would be happy to share with anyone who would like to help by signing a petition to be sent to him regarding this crisis. These gorgeous creatures need our help and I ask you to do your part to save them. You can PM me if interested. I thank you, the bears thank you and so do their babies who will also starve as mothers become to weak to hunt and to teach them to hunt.