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Large Ice Shelf Expected To Break From Antarctica

Posted by Soulskill on from the too-cool-for-school dept.

MollyB sends this excerpt from CNN: "A large ice shelf is 'imminently' close to breaking away from part of the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists said Friday. Satellite images released by the European Space Agency on Friday show new cracks in the Wilkins Ice Shelf where it connects to Charcot Island, a piece of land considered part of the peninsula. The cracks are quickly expanding, the ESA said. ... The Wilkins Ice Shelf — a large mass of floating ice — would still be connected to Latady Island, which is also part of the peninsula, and Alexander Island, which is not, said professor David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey. ... If the ice shelf breaks away from the peninsula, it will not cause a rise in sea level because it is already floating, scientists say. Some plants and animals may have to adapt to the collapse."

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  1. Re:Global Warming Is A Hoax by Burnhard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, it isn't a joke. People who believe in the AGW religion have a tendency, much like Bronze age fantasists, to assign causes to any and every natural event. I even read an article about Global Warming causing earth quakes. People are all too willing to suspend their rationality in the face of self-proclaimed experts (Hansen, Mann, Gore).

  2. Re:What's in a Name by jcnnghm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For exactly the same reason that the Democrats changed all of the documents about their stimulus packages from "Jobs Created" to "Jobs Saved or Created". You can't quantify jobs saved, just as you can't quantify climate change, but it's happening, trust.

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  3. Re:If the ice melts by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "The ice levels of your childhood were extremely high."

    You must be extremely high to believe that.

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  4. Re:If the ice melts by TapeCutter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You admitted you were a psuedo-skeptic, why are you trying to be all sciency again? - How many people occupy your head and do they all get along?

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    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
  5. Re:If the ice melts by NIckGorton · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oooh. An anthropogenic global warming denier/minimizer and you're anti-stem cell research. If you tell me you're pro-Intelligent Design, you will have the trifecta of idiocy!