Global Heat is apparently not the only problematic anthropogenic item hitching a ride pole-ward by wind and water. From the land of the midnight sun comes news of another unwelcome industrial stepchild with potentially far reaching effects on real children:
Times UK -- Twice as many girls as boys are being born across much of the Arctic because of pollution from industrialised countries, scientists have found. The study also found that in parts of Russia many newborn boys were sickly or underweight. The Scandinavian scientists behind the study suspect the same to be the case in Greenland and Canada. ..."In the north of Greenland, near the Thule American airbase, only girl babies are being born to Inuit families. The problem is acute in the north and east of Greenland, where people still have the traditional diet. This has become a critical question of people’s survival, but few governments want to talk about the problem."
Among the possible contributing causes are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) which were released into the environment in massive quantities both here and abroad at one time. PCBs are a known toxin, carcinogen, and they can produce sexual changes in growing embryos -- including the feminization of male fetal anatomy and/or intersex babies.