Spy Satellite Photos: Obama Reveals Secret Evidence of Global Warming Bush Tried to Hide

Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.

The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanize Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change [1] caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

One particularly striking set of images - selected from the 1,000 photographs released - includes views of the Alaskan port of Barrow. One, taken in July 2006, shows sea ice still nestling close to the shore. A second image shows that by the following July the coastal waters were entirely ice-free.

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Maps

Recently Shell Oil was given the go-ahead to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea adjacent to ANWR, the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. It seems it is a constant fight to make the government keep its promise to maintain ANWR as a REFUGE rather than a place to be exploited for oil.

In 2002, a Fish and Wildlife employee was fired for putting caribou calving location maps on the ANWR website. I was able to archive this website before it was totally scrubbed from the internet and have had it, in its entirety, on MapCruzin.com ever since.

I'll have more on this as it unfolds. But it looks as though the government, once again, may be closing in on ANWR.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Maps, Descriptions and Issues

Alaska & Polar Bear Shapefiles

I'm beginning to post the answers to questions I get at MapCruzin.com. I hope they're of help and interest to you. Here's the first:

Hello - For polar bear habitat shapefiles, go here:

looks like you can request polar bear distribution shapefiles from the
Alaska Natural Heritage Program.

For general shapefiles (tiger data) of alaska go to our
Census 2007 Tiger/Line shapefile download page.

Good luck

Mike
http://www.mapcruzin.com/