[OKC] FW: The Warming of Antarctica; plus The Real Risks of BPA

[Shauna Struby]

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  November 24, 2010


A Note From the Editor

At
<http://yale.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b70b711355cbb09eb9f5e5702&id
=93e36508e6&e=cfccb27a6f> Yale Environment 360 this week, our senior editor,
Fen Montaigne, writes about
<http://yale.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b70b711355cbb09eb9f5e5702&id=
286faa1a6b&e=cfccb27a6f> the warming of Antarctica and its implications for
the planet. Montaigne, who spent five months at a U.S. science station in
Antarctica, describes how the rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula
represents the first breach in an enormous citadel of cold that holds 90
percent of the world’s ice. In the past several decades, as temperatures
have risen sharply, eight ice shelves have fully or partially disintegrated
along the Antarctic Peninsula, 90 percent of glaciers have retreated along
its western coast, and sea ice now blankets parts of the Southern Ocean
nearly three months fewer a year than in 1979. As human activity continues
to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the question now, Montaigne
notes, is not whether Antarctica will begin to melt in earnest, but how
rapidly.
<http://yale.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b70b711355cbb09eb9f5e5702&id=
2a0f16df75&e=cfccb27a6f> Read the article.

Also at Yale Environment 360 today, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert
interviews a leading, and outspoken, expert on the dangers of the synthetic
chemical, Bisphenol A, or BPA, now found in everything from plastic bottles,
to can linings, to cash register receipts. Frederick vom Saal, a biologist
at the University of Missouri, warns that the ill effects of our frequent
exposure to this chemical — which include an increased risk of prostate
cancer, heart disease, and damage to the reproductive system —
<http://yale.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b70b711355cbb09eb9f5e5702&id=
2415727e55&e=cfccb27a6f> are far higher than either industry or U.S.
regulators concede. Vom Saal excoriates the chemical industry for covering
up the dangers of BPA and U.S. officials for relying on shoddy studies to
avoid regulating it. The regulatory system, says vom Saal, “has fossilized
to the point that it is absolutely perverting the sense that they are
engaging in any kind of rational process of evaluating the health effects of
chemicals.”
<http://yale.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b70b711355cbb09eb9f5e5702&id=
1bb88b3fdb&e=cfccb27a6f> Read the e360 interview.

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Roger Cohn
Editor



  

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