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72 degrees North. Ursus Maritimus revisited...a case of "Reticent Mass Murder"

The recent media coverage of the plight of the Polar Bear takes me away from my current hot location, the Libyan Sahara...to revisit an experience from April 3 2004.

Global warming is not such a difficult concept to grasp when the heat outside of my office is 40c+, and the palm trees & tamarisx bushes of the Sahara are dying due to subtle changes in the climate, causing extensive desertification.



The temperature difference between boiling water and hot water (taking altitude out of the maths) is what ? The temperature difference between freeze and thaw is what ? The jury is out ?, but we all know that we are contributing to the "straw that broke the camels back".

And I collect the $ in the wilderness for finding the Oil and Gas that made this screen...run's the airconditioner, powers my "pentium chip" & flys me home to my children...one day in the future I hope my boy's get to see a ;

Polar bear (plural polar bears)



A very large bear found in the Arctic Circle, white in appearance and very furry.

Otherwise known as; Ursus maritimus
a taxonomic species within the genus Ursus; the polar bear, a species of bear that is native to the Arctic and the apex predator within its range. The arths largest land carnivore...

Enjoy ! (while you still can)



The location April 3rd 2004 was at a proposed LPG export terminal, I took the photograph from within my Lada Niva 4X4. He had come in search of a tasty morsel or two, neither of which I intended to become. He, I say he because thats what the driver told me was very skinny (he was also quite a muddy chap as the thaw had again come early, two months early.

My brief was to support a land survey team plotting and scouting a route for a planned 22" pipeline from Dudinka some 600miles south in the taiga, Siberia. This involved testing the load bearing capacity of the permafrost.The change from from open ocean to tundra plateau to coniferous wonderland is startling...All the more so when you fly daily from base to base.



91热爆 on the Ice shared with other contractor groups.



91热爆 amongst the Spruce...



Each spring the point at which the tundra and the Taigra meet is moving, meters, 100 of meters north...as the permafrost thaws the trees spread, stunted at first...but gradually rising in hight over a kilometer or so.

Transition between warm and cold, Tigra meets Tundra:



The palm trees and tamarisx are dying in the Sahara, the conifers spread north as the ice retreats...It is true I have seen it.
maybe we are just caught up in the cycle of earthly change and have little to do with it. We live finite lives, have finite resources and live on a planet with a finite existance...

We live on the Western fringe out in the islands, we if anyone can lead by example...I understand that the asthetics of a windturbine and the impact of tidal generators are not to eveybodies taste...but it is time for change, time for everybody to play their part in the bigger picture. I for one would much rather have a thousand turbines than no Polar Bears.

It maybe is to late to stop this "Reticent Mass Murder", But my Boys haven't yet seen a wild Polar bear, Ursus Maritimus....

An Off Shore View.........................................................................................



And to finish on an upbeat picture I just had to include the below photograph.
The USSR had hundreds of Mink farms in Siberia, when the Soviet state broke down the farms unsupported by the state fell int disrepair, hundreds of thousands of mink were let free in the wilds...the local people in this village put the ones they trap to good use...and the Capercaille are coming back , slowly...things sometimes can be fixed...