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(Archive September 2017) Climate Change and You – A Look at the Next 25 Years

By editorialteam on January 8, 2025

By Jennifer Ballou | Observer Contributor

In summer, some polar bears do not make the transition from their winter residence on the Svalbard islands to the dense drift ice and pack ice of the high arctic where they would find a plethora of prey. This is due to global climate change which causes the ice around the islands to melt much earlier than previously. The bears need to adapt from their proper food to a diet of detritus, small animals, bird eggs and carcasses of marine animals. Very often they suffer starvation and are doomed to die.
Andreas Weith; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Endangered_arctic_-_starving_polar_bear.jpg

Picture a cup of water. Now imagine that cup overflowing. It would be quite disastrous, wouldn’t it? Nowhere for that excess water to go, just continuously causing a mess and damaging what is around it.
This is how physics Professor Nathanael Fortune of Smith College wants people to view the world. Fortune recently gave a speech about the science and basics of climate change to the North Quabbin Energy group at the Millers River Environmental Center in Athol. He explains his analogy, stating that “our earth is that cup and we are filling our atmosphere with carbon dioxide two times faster than it can remove it.” read more