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Larsen Ice Shelf Collapses
Cally writes in: "The BBC reports that the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica, a 200m thick ice floe covering 3,250 sq km, has disintegrated. This is terrible news. The widely respected British Antarctic Survey are quoted as saying "We knew what was left would collapse eventually, but the speed of it is staggering[...] [It is hard] to believe that 500 billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month." As a Greenpeace member who's been following the debate for over a decade, it's hard not to feel aggrieved at those with their own agenda who have pushed the theory that global climate change isn't happening. Risk = probability x consequence..." The big iceberg is a separate event.
Well. Yes.
The problem is that US has something like 500:1 vehicles comared to thos poorer countries.
And US' steel industry (single most pollutive in terms of C2O) is badly b0rked. And Bush' goverment just went on to support it.
And in Finland our goverment has insane (like 150%) taxes on new vehicles, so most (75%) people drive in damn non-catalyzator cars, polluting just more.
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> It always ticks me off that the Greenpeace people
> oppose anything that creates greenhouse gasses
> while at the same time protesting nuclear power
> which is the only real way to get free of
> greenhouse gas emmisions
More Nuclear power stations = more chance of one of them somewhere exploding, leaking, or having nuclear material stolen.
They could be concidered a terrorist target too; you have to wonder how well a power station would stand up to someone flying a plane or two into it.
It's people like you who give me comfort that the ice caps melting is a good thing.
Should change people's attitude once our climate kills many of our population.
See you at the shoreline dickhead.
Yeah, Arafat would be claiming it as his homeland, and blaming the Jews for its demise.
-- I have monkeys in my pants.