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Adding to the onslought of environmental disasters we seem bent on inflicting on the planet and ourselves Reuters reports today two additional concerns , a forecast of arctic sea ice shrinking to a record low again in 2008 due to global warming with ice lossage the size of Texas and California combined and news that Siberia's Lake Baikal , the worlds largest lake, warmed faster than global air temperatures over the past 60 years, The lake has warmed 1.21 degrees Celsius (2.18 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1946 due to climate change, almost three times faster than global air temperatures, according to a paper by the scientists to be published next month in the journal "Global Change Biology." Polar bears in the arctic are already being pressured by the shrinking ice shelves and the fate of the freshwater seal, unique to Lake Baikal also hangs in the balance as the warming of the lake is melting the ice caves and formations it breeds its pups in exposing them for the first time to land based predators and birds. But there is another concern , commercial interests moving in to industrially exploit the fall out from global warming, greater access to the arctic and its oil and other resources brought about by the retreating ice. The US, Russia, Canada and Denmark are already squaring up to each other in the arctic anxious to stake claims in what is clearly going to be the 21st century's new Klondyke region as global warming opens up the region for a free for all. The Earth is tired and I dont think we are going to take any notice until the sea and temperature rises force us too by which time it will be too late.
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