Get the latest news from Computerworld delivered via email.The annual Canadian seal hunt polarises opinions and raises many issues.
Whatever your view of the bloody spectacle, the fact that it is even taking place this year is interesting in one incidental way - thick ice has caused it to get off to a slow start.
That’s a change from last year, when the annual cull was affected by a lack of ice.
As the link to National Geographic above says, the absence of ice a year ago was ascribed by some to man-made global warming. The fact the ice had been thin for most of this decade bolstered that view.
What to make of the situation this year? It doesn’t mean global warming isn’t happening, but the return of the ice in the waters off Canada’s eastern coast is an interesting phenomenon.
Yes it is an interesting phenomena and a well known one. It is called La Nina and has a world wide effect.
Posted by: demena | April 8, 2008 3:40 PM