ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF AN EXTREMELY SICK PLANET THAT WE CAN TOTALLY IGNORE AS WE DRIVE OUR SUVs AND CLAIM A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, RIGHT?

I discovered this tale, both cautionary and spooky, while I was reading about something else. I failed to make a note of it’s origin, but it might have been the London Guardian.

Eskimos and scientists report a strange "lightness at noon" that is turning the usual all-day darkness of the high Canadian Arctic into twilight, apparently in defiance of natural laws. Canadian government officials say it may be the result of an unusual atmospheric phenomenon caused by global warming. Inuit hunters are telling the government's weather station at Resolute Bay - Canada's second most northerly village, 1,000 miles from the North Pole - of a new light in the sky. And Wayne Davidson, the Canadian government official who runs the station, says he believes it is caused by climate change. For the past five years, Mr Davidson says, there has been a growing light along the horizon in the middle of the day in winter. "The entire horizon is raised like magic, like the hand of God is bringing it up," he says. But Mr Davidson's investigations, backed by other scientists, suggest a more prosaic explanation. Warmer air, from global warming, is overlaying the cold air of the Arctic and the interface between the two creates a kind of "mirror in the sky" which reflects the sun's rays from further south.

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