Iceland's vanishing glaciers: Land of fire and ice is losing half its identity
by Cheryl Katz

The Daily Climate    Translate This Article
18 December 2013

On 18 December 2013 The Daily Climate reported: Iceland, lying just below the Arctic Circle, is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet -- as much a four times the Northern Hemisphere average. The 300-some glaciers that cover more than 10 per cent of the island are losing an average of 11 billion tonnes of ice a year. The annual volume carried away from Iceland's glaciers and not replaced by new snow would fill 50 of the world's largest trucks every minute for the entire year. Subject of ancient myth, a proud literary tradition and a lucrative tourist draw, Iceland's majestic white mountains -- jökull in Icelandic -- are crucial to the nation today. Glacial rivers generate hydropower that provides most of the country's electricity. Glacier ice stores water for its 320,000 residents. Some of the country's glaciers have vanished already and several others will be gone within a decade or two, said glaciologist Helgi Bjornsson, one of the leading scientists to quantify the link between glacial loss and greenhouse gas-induced warming. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern science systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

To read the entire article click here

Global Good News comment:

Maharishi's Vedic Approach can solve the problems reflected in the above article and in all areas of life: agriculture, business, culture, education, government, and world peace. For more information please visit:
http://maharishi-programmes.globalgoodnews.com/

Every day Global Good News documents the rise of a better quality of life dawning in the world and highlights the need for introducing Natural Law based—Total Knowledge based—programmes to bring the support of Nature to every individual, raise the quality of life of every society, and create a lasting state of world peace.

Translation software is not perfect; however if you would like to try it, you can translate this page using:

(Google) Select a language English to Afrikaans English to Albanian English to Arabic English to Belarusian English to Bulgarian English to Catalan English to Chinese (Simplified) English to Chinese (Traditional) English to Croatian English to Czech English to Danish English to Dutch English to Estonian English to Filipino English to Finnish English to French English to Galician English to German English to Greek English to Hebrew English to Hindi English to Hungarian English to Icelandic English to Indonesian English to Irish English to Italian English to Japanese English to Korean English to Latvian English to Lithuanian English to Macedonian English to Malay English to Maltese English to Norwegian English to Persian English to Polish English to Portuguese English to Romanian English to Russian English to Serbian English to Slovak English to Slovenian English to Spanish English to Swahili English to Swedish English to Thai English to Turkish English to Ukrainian English to Vietnamese English to Welsh English to Yiddish

(Altavista babelfish) Select a languageEnglish to Chinese-simpEnglish to Chinese-tradEnglish to DutchEnglish to PortugueseEnglish to FrenchEnglish to GermanEnglish to GreekEnglish to ItalianEnglish to JapaneseEnglish to KoreanEnglish to RussianEnglish to Spanish