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We, in Antarctica, send our greetings to our friends up north in the Arctic. We were saddened to learn that things are getting worse for you.

It seems that Human scientists who have measuring the thickness of Arctic ice for 40 years have changed their minds. A few months ago they were warning that the summer ice in the Arctic could disappear altogether in 2040. Well new information gathered from a British submarine – they could have asked a polar bear – indicates “the effects of global warming are much worse than previously suspected and could lead to a complete melting of Arctic summer ice in as little as 13 years … the thinning was already approaching 50 percent and that the ice could disappear by 2020.”
Just in case you think we’re making this up, check this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18039460/

Mother polar bear & cub: Mike Dunn, NOAA Climate Program Office

The melting Arctic ice will not only change life for the worse for our animal friends but for the native Inuit peoples. Houses, roads, railroads, pipelines sit above fragile permafrost.

Not only that, Humans in their infinite wisdom have used the Arctic lands as dumping grounds. “In some part of the Arctic, toxic and radioactive materials are stored and contained in frozen ground. Thawing may release these substances in the local and wider environment with risks to humans and wildlife alongside significant clean up costs.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070410140922.htm

Full moon Arctic ice: Mike Dunn, NOAA Climate Program Office

My fellow penguins, distinguished polar bears, worthy whales, humans and others. Well, you don’t need me to tell you that these are dangerous times. Look around you: where is the antarctic ice we once knew. The ice of my grandmother’s grandmother.

After many years of silence and confusion, we, the penguins of the world, have come together. Penguins United. To speak. To squawk. To act. About this our eco-crisis. Our impeding doom. The vanishing ice. The rising waters. Penguincide.

Those humans of you who have seen March of the Penguins now know something of our courage and commitment; our ability to survive the most difficult conditions.

This is but the first of many messages. There is still time for us. There is still hope for us.

Thanks to Mlenny for his beautiful photographs of us, and the land we love. Check the blogroll for his website.