Reef at forefront of CO2 battle (BBC) {World Heritage Sites at risk}

By Roger Harrabin
BBC News, Belize

Five metres (15ft) below the clear green water of the western Caribbean lie the fractured remains of a coral dome hundreds of years old.

Local scientists say it's now so badly damaged that another hurricane would simply sweep it away.

But they don't primarily blame hurricanes for the damage to the coral here on the Belize Barrier Reef; they blame climate change.

And they are backing a petition pressing the United Nations World Heritage Sites Committee to acknowledge that climate change is already damaging world heritage sites.

The five sites are the Belize Barrier reef, at 321km (200 miles) long, the biggest in the western hemisphere; the Australian barrier reef; and glacier parks in Nepal, Peru and the Rockies where glaciers are disappearing as the climate warms.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5064870.stm

When the predictions were first made the massive effects seemed way off in the future.

Now it seems that the future is here already.

And yet bush and his followers are still waiting for proof.

Funny thing these people believe in the christian mythology -- and there is far less "proof" for their belief system (in a god, after life -- etc.etc.)

And what is the "holy ghost" anyway??? Father, son and holy ghost -- was that the guy who really impregnated Mary -- that ghost fella?

Just flick down the first page of E/E: Polar bears turning to cannibalism; Asthma on the rise; Fish changing gender; Gypsy Moths threatening forests; Hurricane season warming up nicely already; Desman population halved; Wheat crop succumbing to viruses...

All since Friday.

"And you may say to yourself,
My God, what have I done?"
-Talking Heads

edit: I feel a new sig line comming on...