The effects of the gathering Perfect Storm are appearing in the fabric of our world like cracks spreading slowly through glass. We can look through them, we can deny them, but they are there becoming more visible day by day.  Perfect music to consider all of this by: Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerard – Progeny
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NAIROBI (AFP)—Climate change is having an alarming impact on whales, dolphins, turtles and birds and other rare species that migrate over long distances, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has said.
Rising temperatures are already having a dramatic effect on many of these species’ food, habitat, health and reproduction, UNEP said Thursday in a report coinciding with UN talks on climate change in the Kenyan capital.
Achim Steiner, executive director of UNEP, said evidence was mounting that when a migratory species dwindled or an exotic species showed up in places where previously it was absent, global warming was to blame.
“The consequences of habitat change–changes in temperature, food–will, and is already beginning to, fundamentally affect the ability of species to survive,” Steiner said.
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