Back when I was in Tucson I took a workshop on yoga for kids.
It was about clouds and we went into this guided visualization part. When we came out of it we were handed a cloud, and asked to draw what we saw on it.
Its so nice to look onto the website of my favorite British newspaper, and find this article:
The US administration has taken the first official steps towards listing 10 species of penguin threatened by global warming. That would legally oblige it to tackle climate change under the powerful Endangered Species Act. The law requires the government not to do anything that would "jeopardise the continued existence" of listed species.
The move, by the official Fish and Wildlife Service, is a remarkable victory for a small Arizona-based pressure group, the Center for Biological Diversity. Its activists have been working to use environmental legislation to force a change in the President's climate policies through the back door.
I worked for the Center For Biological Diversity for 8 and 1/2 years. I left cos I was burnt out. I was so happy about them belated taking up the global warming cause. BTW their main offices including the one in Tucson are carbon neutral. Solar panels on the roof. I think the plan is to charge electric cars for travel.
Climate change is already forcing biodiversity to adapt either through shifting habitat, changing life cycles, or the development of new physical traits. Impacts already observed include:
Coral bleaching, caused by increased sea temperatures, is causing die-offs amongst coral reef communities from Australia to the Caribbean.
The Common Murre has advanced breeding by 24 days per decade over the past 50 years in response to higher temperatures.
The Baltimore oriole is shifting northward and may soon disappear entirely from the Baltimore area.
Polar bear populations are coming under threat as food becomes harder to hunt.
Other species will face more unusual challenges. The sex of sea turtle hatchlings, for example, is temperature dependent with warmer temperatures increasing the number of female sea turtles at the expense of males.
Those species that are unable to adapt are facing extinction. In fact, predictions estimate that up to 1 million species may become extinct as a result of climate change including Boyd’s forest dragon and Brazil’s Virola sebifera tree.
The recently extinct Golden Toad and Gastric Brooding Frog have already been labeled as the first victims of climate change.
