- The Argentinean Naval Prefectuyre was
stunned at the presence of two icebergs -- measuring 250 meters in length
-- that reached these shores a few weeks ago. A group of experts, businessmen
and livestock producers provided details on how global warming will affect
Argentina.
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- A few weeks ago, the Argentinean naval
prefecture observed icebergs floating along the Argentinean Sea. "This
is the first time that icebergs of this size have reached Buenos Aires,"
said Miguel Angel Reyes, chief of maritime traffic. "The Prefecture
escorted the bergs until they were outside the danger zone, he added in
statements to the Bloomberg news agency.
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- The PNA forced ships to change course
after two icebergs, 250 meters long and 30 meters tall, broke
off the Antarctic in January and drifted 4,400 miles north. Barely
a month later, two more icebergs cruised by the Argentinean coast.
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- According to scientists, the change in
the iceberg's routs evidences how global warming has modified meteorological
patterns. In Argentina, this causes radical changes in the fields.
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- "The increase in temperatures is
responsible for this," said Juan Carlos Leva, a geophysicist with
the Unidad de Nivologia y Glaceologia of the Regional Center for Scientific
and Technological Research of Mendoza. "The situation worsened,"
he told Bloomberg.
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- At the time, rising temperatures have
caused floods in Cordoba, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires while at the same time,
the heat dries up the rivers to the north at an fierce rate, affecting
energy production and reducing the supply of available water for cultivation
and consumption, said Vicente Barros, a professor of Climatology with the
University of Buenos Aires.
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- (translation (c) 2006. Scott Corrales,
IHU)
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