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February 11, 2012
Reindeer herd drowns in icy Lapland waters
Published: 13 Nov 09 11:56 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23250/20091113/
More than 400 reindeer have drowned in a river in Jokkmokk in northern Sweden after thin surface ice cracked while the herd were moving to their winter pastures.
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”The ice suddenly gave way and hundreds of reindeer fell into the water,” said Bertil Kielatis, chairman of the Sirges Sami village in Jokkmokk.
”Now we are working to recover the animals that have drowned,” he added.
Sirges is Sweden’s largest Sami village with around 300 members and 90 herders.
The incident means a substantial financial loss for the herders and disaster for the local community.
”It’s a tragedy in many ways,” Kielatis added. ”Not only for the reindeer that suffered but for the herders who were helpless to save their animals.”
The reindeer were lead by herders who drove snow-mobiles and were assisted by a helicopter.
Kielatis added there was nothing unusual about the route or the way the herding was carried out.
”This is how we usually work nowadays when leading a large herd up or down from the mountains,” he said.
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For those of you who still doubt there is global warming, here is a direct result. Another victim in a few years will e the famous Ice Hotel: it will no longer be possible to carve the right type of ice to build it soon.
Global waming is slowly making all the lakes in the north of Sweden very dangerous in Winter.
I remember a time when it was not unusal to see a large lorry go straight across a lake or even use a frozen river as a road. I have not even heard of that in the last decade.
This sort of event could decimate the economy of the Sami over the next decade if winter travel routes for herds are disrupted due to global warming, across all of northern Sverige, northern Norge and northern Finland.
I really do hope a solution can be found to this problem so as to maintain the Sami and there ancient European culture.
This is definately a wake up call.
Wait and see.
Actually, you are also right. One of the effects of global warming is to stop the global tidal "conveyor belt" which moves the ocean waters around. It works like this: cold water sinks in the polar regions and creates ovement, as the tides pass through warmer regions and the water starts to warp up, it begins to rise, keeping the conveyor belt moving.
When the water stops moving, it begins to evaporate in huge amounts on the surface. It also starts to cool. It will continue to cool more and more until a new ice age happens. This is of course cyclical. But we have been speeding it up considerably.
Actually, it's called "Earth Investigated" and can be found in National Geographic, if I'm not mistaken.
As for the ice hotel under threat, you can check it out in many places. One such:
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/ice-hotel-under-threat-20081113-657r.html
@duncs
Reduced sunspot activity is cyclical and short-lived. It will mask other effects for a while.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/13/china.snow.deaths/index.html
And for those of you who have seen "the day after tomorrow" Perhaps you should see "Age of Stupid" instead! (www.ageofstupid.net/) and Hot Cities (www.rockhopper.tv)
Nice one, somebody finally called it right!
Global warming, climate change, anyone for man made equilibrium?
There are pretty pictures(graphs) for the global warming enthusiAsses that can never seem to read beyond bold headlines.