According to Hong Kong press, American scientists have proved that global warming is drowning polar bears. Research points out that ice shelves are melting under warming temperatures, and destroying ice that polar bears depend on for hunting. Polar bears are swimming towards public waters to feed, and are drowning from lack of energy.

    Researchers discovered 4 polar bear bodies by the coast of Alaskan waters last month. The summer temperature locally was 2~3 degrees higher than 1950. Scientist point out that melting ice shrinks their area, increasing the distance and forcing polar bears to swim farther. Some polar bears have swam 100 kilometers to public waters.

    Taiwan, because of its unique international status, is the only non-treaty nation. Its greenhouse gas emission amount is 1% of the worlds, 22^nd in the world, and compared to its GDP, is higher than normal.

    UN world climate change committee released a report saying that 2005 was the year with the worst climate in history. World Nature Foundation released this report saying that the bad climates were characterized by: highest global average temperature ever, melting ice in north pole, Atlantic hurricanes, and warmest Caribbean waters. This year was the driest year for the Amazon River area in decades, and it was drier than any other time in the last century.

    One of the scientists who was first to warn about global warming says that if the amount of greenhouse gases continues to be produced at the current rate, Earth will suffer irreplaceable damage within a decade.

    According to BBC news, at a conference held in San Francisco, Dr. James Hansen warns that if the global temperature rises another degree, Earth will go through a temperature structure not seen for half a million years. He says that now Earth is on the verge of disaster, but, he says, if the problem of energy is faced with a firm attitude, the temperature will stabilize.

    Last December, Typhoon Nanmadu hit Taiwan, writing a new page in Taiwan's meteorology history. In old records, never has there been a winter typhoon; under this wave of global abnormal weather, Taiwan cannot exempt itself.

    Experts analyze that the climate changes for the last century and are shocked to discover how dramatic the changes have been. The temperatures have risen twice the amount of the rest of the world, and the north and south have more extreme rainfall, draughts and floods are also more prominent. Dramatic changing weather is not only changing animal and plant growth, it also includes effects on industries and disease prevention.

    Florida was hit by 4 hurricanes last year, the most since 1851, when the records started. Japan was hit by 8 cyclones, a record in Japanese weather history, and the last time, Typhoon Milay, caused 18 deaths. The first ever hurricane in the south Atlantic hit Brazil. Typhoon Elle also caused landslides and floods for Taiwan last August, causing water shortages for Taoyuan county for 20 days.