1. 40 percent to 60 percent of the bees nationwide have perished during the past six months.
2. Fall-run chinook salmon that make a home in the Sacramento River and its tributaries fell in 2006 to their lowest numbers since 1992.
3. A 90% decline in plankton over the past 50 years, leads to fish and seabirds dying in droves.
4. The polar bear population is declining. Loss of summer ice will almost certainly result in extinction.

You can read an interesting report on the effect of global warming on California prepared by Enviornmental Defense in 2006.

Be informed. Ask your government what they are doing to combat this potential catastrophe.

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive