we should be able to cope ourselves, she says. then again, without outside help, there could be civil war. what happened in kazakhstan has left this country and its people in shock and in fear at what comes next. steve rosenberg, bbc news, almaty. one of the uk s greatest ever fossil finds has been revealed the skeleton of a 10 metre long sea predator, rather like a huge prehistoric dolphin, that lived 250 million years ago. it was discovered poking through the mud at rutland water nature reserve in leceistershire. jonah fisher has more. last february, on a bank of mud in a midlands reservoir, joe davis made an extraordinary discovery. we were relandscaping some islands on the rutland water nature reserve there to improve it for bird habitats.
yes, there is we think the most important thing is where you put the wind farms. the sighting is very critically important. putting them near important bird habitats are not the right places and so far we have seen thousands of turbans built in the wrong places. so we do need a better system to try to steer these developments to areas that will have the minimal impact. it seems like a double standard. if i m pheasant hunting or dove shooting and i shoot a bald eagle by accident, you know, i m in deep trouble. i have committed a crime. i don t get an exemption, yet, if i have a wind farm and i am systematically slaughtering them, it s not a problem? how does that work? there is problems created by industry what they call incidental take. accidental killings as a result of this technology. this is an industry that s booming and growing very fast and we feel like the regulatory framework and the wildlife protections haven t simply caught up to that yet. wait a second that rule doe
of many of the crops that i grow. lettuce, garlic, onions, processing tomatoes, almonds. reporter: yorba farm gets its water from 2,000 miles north, reservoirs of rain and snow. this year they re way, way below normal. what water there is, reserved to maintain endangered specie, salmon runs and bird habitats in this sacramento river delta. what s difficult is the inputs that are so essential being subjected to arbitrary governmental regulation. reporter: the government, say farmers, has authority to release more water, but with so many federal and state agencies involved, nothing happens. they want president obama to break the logjam, directing agencies to let the water flow. for anyone to believe that this devastation is only related to a single season of drought would be untrue. reporter: he is holding on with the water he has, well
same, what has to change on earth to cope with the warming of the earth? well, this is what we re trying to figure out right now. nasa has 14 satellites over the earth measuring everything from temperature to wind speed to precipitation to the changes in the polar ice. what we re trying to do is put that and also other federal agencies, we re trying to pull all that information together to try to understand how the planet is going to change. in particular how is north american weather going to change. some people say what s going to happen is the west will get drier, the east will get wetter. also how will we cope with sea level rise. one thing people may want to check out is places like globalchange.gov where there are answers on what will happen. as the sea levels rise there will be great changes to the shape of the coast lines. you ll see increased erosion in summer years. you ll also see impact to wetland s which is important to everything from bird habitats to places that catch
bird habitats. the reason we are so worried about this is satellite studies and on the ground studies tell us the ice around greenland and antarctica is melting and flowing into the oceans at ever increasing rates. the sea level is increasing? right now the sea level is rising at 3 mill meters a year. if you extrapolate that out, it s at least a foot in the next hundred years. a foot in the next hundred years on the coast of california, basically people could stay in their houses? yes. but what you would get is dramatic changes to the beaches and coastal areas, and you need to think about the storm surge being higher. take new york, a lot of the transportation structure is 8 feet above sea level. while a foot rise doesn t seem like a lot, a foot is not even a real estimate. the real estimates we go are