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.""

Comments

So sad

[daeley]

Giant Arctic ice shelf breaks up

In a statement, the Giant Arctic ice shelf hoped they would be able to remain friends despite the breakup. ;)

Re:So sad

[Anonymous Coward]

So global warming is still a myth ? Let's try to keep it that way.

Global Warming is more than a myth, it is a European plot to undermine the US economy! They're all out to get us, because they're jealous of our way of living. That's why they've been drilling holes in the ice shelf for the last decade!

So hop into your SUV, drive home, turn up all your air conditioners (my hasn't it been hot lately), and relax! Overconsumption is your patriotic duty. Any more of this talk about anthropogenic climate change, and we'll send you to Camp X-ray, where you belong you terrorist!

Re:So sad

[Capsaicin]

Clearly Occam's Razor dictates that we go with the alien slow death ray theory!

Re:So sad

[daeley]

I vote for the new Occam's Death Ray theory!

Re:So sad

[kfg]

Oh, I thought it was all the hot gasses wafting out from SCO.

I told them they should avoid the brown acid and cut back on the burritos, but would they listen?

Nooooooooooooooooo!

KFG

Re:So sad

[Gilmoure]

While humans are pumping a lot of greenhouse type gasses into the atmosphere, it's by no means certain that this is directly responsible for global warming. A good Krakatoa size eruption can dwarf 100 years of human output in a day, concerning CO release. And don't forget the giant caldera volcano under Yellowstone is scheduled to erupt 'any time now'.

Personally, I'm just bummed I never got to see the great central sea that covered the great plains. Stupid climactic variation. Why can't everything stay exactly as it was, the day I was born? Except for computers, of course. And space exploration (wait a minute, we went to the moon a year after I was born). And internet porn. And tv channels. Need more channels. And surround sound. My 5.1 setup is so outdated, women who wouldn't have noticed me before and now really not noticing me. But wait until I get my 7.1 setup. Then they'll...still ignore me. But I'll have 7.1 channels of surround sound, with which I'll enjoy...Road Trip? Dare Devil? Gaahh! Movies suck!

Re:So sad

[mlong]

It seems quite obvious to me that the alien death ray is intended to slowly raise the temperature of our planet in order to teraform it for the alien invasion of 2012, as shown on the Mayan calendar. Also any person with a brain can see that the aliens are from Pluto. They are sick of the cold and want a nice place for summer vacation.

Jeez

[Exiler]

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!

Ploy

[Pompatus]

It's all a ploy by Microsoft in their new "kill the penguin" buisness strategy.

Re:Ploy

[red floyd]

It's a bug. They'll fix it in Microsoft MeltingIceShelf(tm) 2.0.

huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Shit happens.

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyway, oil will run out. Then you'll WISH we had global warming.

If I were a LONG-TERM investor...

[product byproduct]

I'd buy a beachfront property on Ellesmere Island while it's cheap, and start building a tropical resort there.

Re:[Correction] Largest *ARTIC* ice shelf

[ChozCunningham]

The poster obviously missed a significant point, that this was the largest arctic ice shelf.

Cool.

[sinserve]

Is there a paved road to there? I will drive my SUV to take a look. Hope they
have diet refreshements.

Re:Has to be asked.

[vekotin]

Nerds are good people. We really do care about nature, even though we only see it via opengl.

A slashdot poll

[Chuck Chunder]

would no doubt be the perfect tool to solve this conundrum.

Notes to self...

[LanceDBoyles]

To do list:

Buy Milk.
Call Dentist.
Sell all Florida real estate.
Pick kids up after soccer.
Mow lawn.

Hello Juan Carlos, this is Jeb

[LanceDBoyles]

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.

Re:Well now,

[OpenSourcerer]

It was just past its shelf life

Re:certainty

[Cyno01]

Let's do a giant experiment using the Earth as a testbed.

Sorry, but we're already being used as an experiment by the mice. :p