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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.
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In that case, we'll destroy 500 million billion tonnes!
The real problem is all the salt in the ocean, it is eventually gonna melt all the ice. We need to get rid of it NOW. It is probably caused by the road commision spreading so much in the winter --to melt the ice on the road, which then drains off into the creeks and streams, then to the rivers and then the ocean, making it salty! Stop using salt to melt road ice, and things in the ocean will stop melting.
There was a lot of screaming that if this happened the ocean level would rise and flood every city with a harbor.
Odd that on the news this morning the greatest problem were two traffic accidents. How far underwater is New York City this morning?
I love the way they drive boats, cars, and fly to protests to try to stop the use of fossil fuels.
I wonder if they have a plan on how to get home if one of the protests actually worked?
Get a towel. You do know where your towel is right?
CAREFULLY, fill one of those huge 64oz Texaco cups full of ice, and THEN oh-so delicately fill it up with water. Also, add a little salt (remember, we ARE talking about salt water: Ocean, DUH...)
Now, RUN LIKE HELL!!!
That thing is gonna go off like an ill-measured volcano at a 4th grade science fair!!! The water will overflow the glass and flood your kitchen, so be prepared! Thats what the towel is for!
Luckily, you are on a hill, so just open the door and all the water will flow down on your lowlying neighbors...(for fun, open a door facing someone you don't like!)
*shaking head/rolling eyes/laughing lightly*
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
I am really fed up with listening to all those whining european liberals. The USA leads the world in science and technology. Why don't they just listen to us and trust what we say? Global warming is just hippy crap.
I think we're absolutely right to tell those whining Europeans to stuff their Kyoto protocol. It is obviously just political and not based on scientific research, like the USA's policy.
And the Japanese! What are they doing agreeing with the Euros? And those South Americans. Of course they don't have many scientists there, so they probably don't understand what they've signed up to. Even the Chinese have implemented reforms of their energy sectors to cut Co2 emmissions and have cut them by over 6 percent over the last five years. What are they thinking? I guess they must be just sucking up to the Europeans.
I just don't get it. When will the Euros (and the Japanese, Chinese, South Americans and the rest of them) stop falling for that environmentalist rubbish and start listening to informed, scientific, and unbiased view of our great leader, G W Bush?
Yes, this is sarcasm.
Is anyone ever going to spell "chlorofluorocarbons" right, or is bad spelling another sad effect of climate change?
No, but they farted.
One of the biggest producers of green house gasses are the methane from farm animals. That is a major 'Machine' that uses chemical processes to suck stuff out of the planet and then SPEW stuff tht is toxic into the environment.
I wrote off Greenpeace after their campaign to ban the element Chlorine (1995) because so many deadly poisons contain chlorine. I had a Greenpeacer come to my house asking for funds. I mentioned the many deadly poisons containing Oxygen, and suggested they might want to ban that also.
In this case, reputable scientist is defined how? Media coverage? There is massive debate in all of the sciences that this touches. A good friend of mine, a solar astrophysicist, has been pointing out for nearly a decade that we have HARD EVIDENCE in the ice records that a massive up-swing in temperature happened in the roughly 500-800AD period, and damaged much of the world's species (there are many human communities that were hurt badly by this).
This change in temperature could have had several causes, but the simplest explanation is that the power output of the sun fluctuates over time...
It was obviously due to human activity... the evilly prosperous Byzantine Empire generated metric tonness of horse dung (and incedental gasses) daily. My computer model (Age of Empires II) demonstrates that it was clearly so.
The only thing that we learn from history is that nobody learns anything from history.
That would be hard to believe, indeed, especially since the actual article at antarctica.ac.uk says: "Hard to believe that 500 billion tonnes of ice sheet has disintegrated in less than a month."
But a factor of a million here, a factor of a million there, who cares, right? This is Slashdot! We don't need no stinkin' proofreading!
There's an old tale that someone from the EPA wasn't satisfied with a pH of 7. He wouldn't be satisfied until they go the pH down all the way to zero.
(7 is neutral. 14 is extreme alkalie, attainable. 0 is extreme acid, not attainable IIRC)