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Giant Ice Shelf Snaps
Popo writes "Sattelite images have revealed that an ancient 66 square-kilometer ice shelf, the size of 11,000 football fields, has snapped off from an island in Canada's arctic. The Ayles Ice Shelf was one of 6 major shelves remaining in Canada's arctic and is estimated to be over 3000 years old. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 km away picked up tremors. Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor."
well, there's that one guy who likes to rape penguins.
my pet machine
Man it's about time that worthless chunk of ice fell of the island. This world needs some change for a change, melting ice caps and glaciers are a good thing and I can't wait to see more beachfront property opening up at the top of the world! Think of the land rush! I'm getting in early.
... Nice messages and heck, I even support some of them, but save me the indigination while we're all tapping away on our keyboards, jamming with our ipods (or a zune or zen if you're an idiot) and in general consuming stuff at viral levels.
Global warming, climate change, blah, blah, blah. I know the knee jerks like to make alarmist press about the warming of the world (slashdot being filled with knee jerks), along with their peak oil theories, and what not, but really, Really, why should we care?
Stop polluting and spouting CO2, or
Yeah, I'm rambling so mod me down. Meanwhile, I'm saddling up my cow and going riding! Methane man on the way.
Democrats and Republicans are like AIDS and Cancer, I want neither!
We're in the middle of what meteorologists described as a "once in 1,000 years drought", had our hottest December night on record (minimum 27C/81F) and a 4 days later it snowed on xmas day.
Climate change?
That's just a myth put about by people who believe what they see when they look out their window!
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
Because if he stopped to actually THINK about it instead of just being standoffish, stubborn and doubtful, he would have realized that 1) SATELLITES are a relatively NEW invention (climate sats doubbly so, ~30 years) and 2) 150 years is a long ass time to keep temperature records and probably corresponds with the invention of thermometers meeting the scientific method (ie scientific weather measurements).
Oh and most importantly, he misreads "largest event of its kind in 30 years" as "not since 30 years ago has an event like this occured" which is just lazy. Does it make sense that they only have 30 years of sattellite data? YES! when you actually *think* about the words in the sentance instead of blindly trying to poke holes in it to prove that: "My brain has a pesky habit of continually asking questions. All those X-Files episodes, I guess. Trust no one. Ideologues hate me."
The things that pass for critical thinking now adays... Im sure the poster is just young and egotistical, but still I hate seeing this kind of crap modded up (not that your sig begging the oppressors to stop keeping you down, doesnt inspire a like-minded rant in and of itself).
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
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