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100-Sq.-Mile Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
suraj.sun sends word of a 100-sq.-mile (260-sq.-km) ice island that broke off of a Greenland glacier on Thursday. "The block of ice separated from the Petermann Glacier, on the north-west coast of Greenland. It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962... The ice could become frozen in place over winter or escape into the waters between Greenland and Canada. ... [NASA satellite] images showed that Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-km-long (43-mile) floating ice shelf. There was enough fresh water locked up in the ice island to 'keep all US public tap water flowing for 120 days,' said Prof Muenchow." The Montreal Gazette has more details and implications for Canadian shipping and oil exploration, along with this telling detail: "the ice island’s thickness [is] more than 200 metres in some places... [or] half the height of the Empire State Building." The NY Times has a good satellite photo of the situation.
a True Believer when they have that look in their eyes: it'll just create more heat.
damaged by dogma
No, Arctic sea ice cover is greater than 2007, not declining, as you expected. Do try to keep up.
You fucking moron, do you not have a clue what climate change means? But gee golly! We got someone here who can pick numbers out from a database on a website! Clearly climate change is a conspiracy, especially if I use ALL CAPS a lot! The truth is here folks! (Just one question; How can you live with yourself? And why do you feel compelled to revel in your ignorance here on Slashdot?)
don't bother. notice how he introduces the bit about what annoys him about the 'GW debate' as if both sides are screwy, only to say the thing that annoys him is how the pro-AGW side operates, at least in his own head.
it's like "you know what annoys me about the abortion debate, it's how the liberals come up with excuses for baby murder"
Anyone who gets paid can be said to have an agenda. Any public university has some connections to people who get paid to do government. Ergo, people who don't have an agenda = a null set = invisible pink unicorns.
The very idea of ice age and inter ice age periods means there must have been times when Greenland lost Ice before, as you point out. So? Who on the global warming side is claiming differently, and why are you attacking the straw man that somebody is making that claim, instead of addressing the real claim that this warm period exists and is man made. If we have to prove that nothing even vaguely like this ever happened before or it can't be man made this time, then humans didn't hunt the passenger pigeon to extinction, because extinctions have happened before there were people. Computerised trading didn't have any effects on the latest stock market crash, because crashes have happened before there were computers. Vaccines don't protect against plagues, because plagues died out before they killed everybody, long before there were vaccines.
Please go play in heavy traffic - you see, you've never been run over by a semi before, so by your logic, whether you look at the stoplights or not, it can't happen this time.
Who is John Cabal?
You are an idiot