- Peace Garden: One benefit of global warming?

One benefit of global warming?

Monday, February 26, 2007

Melting Ice Gives Birth to a Strange New World

Herds of sea cucumbers on the move, fields of sea squirts and forests of glass sponges. These were just some of the fantastic sights scientists captured on an underwater expedition to a remote region of Antarctica. Marine biologists made a unique inventory of lifeforms on a part of the seabed that had been sealed off for thousands of years by massive ice shelves before they suddenly broke up. Waves of colonising plants and animals quickly moved in to exploit the new habitat which had opened up after a region of ice a third of the size of Belgium had disappeared and let in daylight and oxygen.
Without global warming these scientists wouldn't have had a chance to explore.

Sorry guys - I wish you didn't have this opportunity.



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