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Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks In Two
heidi writes "CNN has this story on the breakup of the largest ice cap. A permanent feature for the previous 3,000 years, it has broken into two pieces. "The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's Nunavut territory, broke into two main parts, themselves cut through with fissures. A freshwater lake drained into the sea, the researchers reported.""
Giant Arctic ice shelf breaks up
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In a statement, the Giant Arctic ice shelf hoped they would be able to remain friends despite the breakup.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
That'd make ALOT of slushies!
Thank you, come again... and again... and again, for the love of god, we're swimming in slushie, COME AGAIN!
Banaaaana!
It's all a ploy by Microsoft in their new "kill the penguin" buisness strategy.
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so why should we believe that this ice shelf actually broke, or even existed to begin with? because some environmentalists say so? call me a skeptic but i'll believe this when i hear it in church
Anyway, oil will run out. Then you'll WISH we had global warming.
I'd buy a beachfront property on Ellesmere Island while it's cheap, and start building a tropical resort there.
The poster obviously missed a significant point, that this was the largest arctic ice shelf.
Looks good for your age..
Is there a paved road to there? I will drive my SUV to take a look. Hope they
have diet refreshements.
Nerds are good people. We really do care about nature, even though we only see it via opengl.
maybe it's causal ambiguity hell that is melting the ice?
would no doubt be the perfect tool to solve this conundrum.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
To do list:
Buy Milk.
Call Dentist.
Sell all Florida real estate.
Pick kids up after soccer.
Mow lawn.
My
It may not be too late to Give Florida Back to Spain.
I think we may still have the Receipt around here somehwhere...
On the other hand, at an average height of just 4 feet above sea level, this may be Governor Jeb's covert attempt at "wetlands" reclamation.
My
The Tuvalu .tv TLD registrar appears on f**kedcompany.com shortly thereafter.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
It was the xenobaths wot did it.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Even scarier, we're several thousand years past due on the next ice age.
Yes, so now mother nature is reposessing an ice shelf. We better pay up before the repo guys take back a glacier or two.
I am not a sig.
It was just past its shelf life
Desi Noise, Live!
I suspect that people like you are have glossed over eyes for a lifetime.
I, for one, welcome our new Arctic ice shelf Overlords!
Not exactly a natural cycle. You just don't understand the effect man has on the environment. When man first came to North America, one of the first things he did was to drive all of the large mammals (mammoths, mastadons, etc) to extinction.
With these large mammals no longer emitting greenhouse gases in their flatulence (methane), the world temperatures plunged and the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf was formed.
Only now has man been able create enough SUVs to replenish the greenhouse gasses formerly produced by mammoth farts. Thus restoring the world to its natural balance.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Man, you Linux zealots never miss a chance for a plug, do you?