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Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off

knarfling writes "CNN is reporting that a chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic. Just last month 21 square miles of ice broke free from the Markham Ice Shelf. Scientists are saying that Ellesmere Island has now lost more than 10 times the ice that was predicted earlier this summer. How long before the fabled Northwest Passage is a reality?"

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  1. Artic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope it wasn't abstract artic, or else we're all doomed.

    1. Re:Artic! by Kagura · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's the place opposite Antartica on the globe.

    2. Re:Artic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Important: As you can see from the "Firehose:Huge Artic Ice Shelf Breaks Off" link right below "Related Stories", this was originally misspelled, even on the front page release. It's fixed, however. Too bad.

    3. Re:Artic! by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

      You think so? Let's take a pole.

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    4. Re:Artic! by PsychoElf · · Score: 2, Funny

      North or South?

    5. Re:Artic! by pushing-robot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe there is!
      Maybe they made us forget!

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    6. Re:Artic! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Silly Pole. You're holding your map upside down again.

  2. Icy Relationship by DeathGod321 · · Score: 4, Funny

    These icy, loveless relationships aren't meant to last. I'm glad that the arctic broke it off.

  3. sorry by A+little+Frenchie · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just wanted an ice cube...

    1. Re:sorry by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ironically, the ice in question was also on the rocks.

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  4. Those shrieking sounds you hear... by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...are the screams of millions of spelling nazis.

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Re:Never, hopefully. by Brynath · · Score: 3, Funny

    All is going according to Alaska's plan:

    1: Join forces with the USA (check)
    2: Wait for NWP to open up (almost there)
    3: Annex Canada!!!

  7. And The Award Goes To.... by DougF · · Score: 5, Funny
    From TFA:

    ...we're looking at ecosystems on the verge of distinction.

    I know almost nobody reads TFA, but apparently no one edits them, either.

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  8. Re:1906 by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leave science to the scientists, and the conspiracy theories to the loon... oh I see... carry on.

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  9. Oil! by mosb1000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How long before the fabled Northwest Passage is a reality?"

    And when can we start drilling for oil up there?

  10. Re:The Climate Change Guys Will Have a Field Day.. by marco.antonio.costa · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yea, like "evidence" is something the global warming consensus is going to bother with. They have a CONSENSUS goddammit! You better watch what you say, or they just might burn you at the stake. With ethanol, of course. :-)

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  11. Re:1906 by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    GAH, the Suns effect on temperature increase has been studied, and in fact if that was what is causing, the temperature Range would change up and down daily to match what the sun does. It does not. Nor does it's output match the long term trend.

    This. Has. Been. Done.

    Stop bringing this up, It's passed on! This hypothesis is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, It rests in peace! If ignorant people wouldn't keep bring it up it'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-HYPOTHESIS!

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  12. Re:1906 by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 3, Funny

    GAH, the Suns effect on temperature increase has been studied, and in fact if that was what is causing, the temperature Range would change up and down daily to match what the sun does. It does not.

    ....? Why was it 97 degrees saturday, 101 sunday, and then 86 monday in July that one week? *confused*

  13. Re:1906 by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah yes, the Global Warming Industry - last year earning a billion trillion dollars by harvesting the energy from the frustration of having to separate the recyclables. Also it eats kittens.

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  14. Re:1906 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks for showing everyone just how little you actually know and understand about the subject.

  15. Re:Never, hopefully. by gregbot9000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    WTF, what year is it in Canada? 1905? I think you're onto something though, and after the States take over the NWP we can then take over the Suez Canal and build a canal through Panama, then there would be no way to stop our Dreadnoughts from ruling the high sea's!

  16. anti-godzilla rock by irtza · · Score: 3, Funny

    I too have been worried about Godzilla of late. Then I realized, that there is a rock in my backyard and that the whole time the rock has been there, Godzilla never attacked my home! Its amazing, but its true. I am willing to sell you this rock and take the risk of a Godzilla attack because I feel its only fair that others may benefit. I must charge for it, so that I may use the funds to research other anti-Godzilla measures and fund my anti-bear attack research. Let me know if you are interested.

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    1. Re:anti-godzilla rock by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

      Pfft... There's no money in a rock that prevents Godzilla from attacking.

      Now a rock that causes Godzilla to attack, that would be where the big bucks are.

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  17. Re:1906 by Cassius+Corodes · · Score: 2, Funny

    the -only- source of energy in our solar system.

    are you on drugs mate? Wtf are you using to run your car.

    And plz don't embarrass yourself further by trying to claim it all came from the sun as well...

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  18. Re:1906 by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 2, Funny

    are you on drugs mate? Wtf are you using to run your car.

    And plz don't embarrass yourself further by trying to claim it all came from the sun as well...

    Oh, my God. Kid, you just embarrassed yourself better than anyone else ever could. And on Slashdot, that's quite a feat.

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  19. Re:1906 by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    global warming activists kill us all because of an understudied field of science (ecology) led us to ignore other possible cause and effect relationships.

    It's a lack of people wearing full pirate regalia!

  20. Re:1906 by Snospar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we can just look at the sun itself

    My eyes, my beautiful eyes!

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  21. Re:1906 by OneoFamillion · · Score: 3, Funny
    I bet it'll have to sit in the ground for quite some time before we'll have birds large enough to swallow tires.

    Or perhaps a very large pelican? Not a very smart bird, the pelican...

    *blinks*

    Oh, sorry. Please do carry on.

  22. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Noone can impart perfect universal truths to their Students."

    "Ahem."

    "Except math teachers."

  23. Sarah Palin by GlindaTheGood · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sarah Palin says: "There is no such thing as global warming so this could not have possibly happened!"