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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.
Clearly. This never happened in the past before man started driving cars and burning fossil fuels
could we ban kdawson from posting "stories"? Every story he's posted in the last 4 days have been stripped from the news.google headlines about a day late. He's turning /. into an AP regurgitation machine. I've had to start checking /. first now so google doesn't "scoop" my entertainment. at the very least, can I filter him out through my prefs?
No, this is a sign of AGW.
No, it's not, for numerous different reasons.
And, BTW, ice cover has increased since 2007... is that a sign of Global Cooling?
Are you a complete fucking moron? That question is like the passengers rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic.
The global warming nuts have infested Slashdot pretty heavily.
Best not to disturb them (although I enjoy it occasionally)
Let the poor pointy headed bastards live in their tiny worlds.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Uh yeah sure, blame the oil companies for the gas you put in your tank. No on forced you to buy a car. No one is forcing you to fill up, either.
By the way, I realize the Earth has been warming since the last ICE AGE - it does these cycles from time to time. I doubt very much that the human race has anything but a negligible impact on this process, however. We will poison ourselves long before we can change mother Earth. She can take super-volcanoes with no problem. Why should she be concerned with us?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
How it Works
This is what happens at the drive-thru window at Taco Bell:
8:04am -- You pull up to the little screen and wait.
3:12pm -- You hear a click followed by "Th*czz* for ch*czz* sing *czzz* ell. I'll be one s*czz* ond."
3:13pm -- You assume they said "Thank you for choosing Taco Bell. I'll be one second.
7:26pm -- You hear a click and then "Thank you for *czz*ing. May I take you're order?"
7:26pm -- You give him your order.
7:27pm -- You order the E. Coli burrito and some donkey cock with a side of Shitamons Twists.
7:29pm -- You hear a click and then "Would *czzz*ou like anything else?"
7:30pm -- You say yesno (or maybe so).
7:30pm -- You pull up to the first window (wait 20 minutes).
7:52pm -- Someone opens the window and takes your money and you swear the mole on jis-her face is a second head growing.
7:53pm -- You pull up to the next window (waits til the window opens).
9:47pm -- Someone gives you food. The order is wrong, but produces the same effect.
9:50pm -- You arrive at home and begin eating.
10:00pm -- You finish eating and immediately realize you need to take a shit (more like a splat).
10:05pm -- You complete your shit and begin wiping...for the next 2 hours.
12:43am -- You finish wiping (again).
12:44am -- You pull up your pants and walk back to the kitchen, happy that your horrific ordeal is over.
12:45am -- Suddenly shit sprays down your leg and into your mouth (which happens to be on the floor, awed at the amount of toilet paper it took to wipe)...you got shit all over yourself.
12:49am -- You go back into the bathroom.
12:50am -- As you take off your pants, shit sprays onto the wall.
1:00 am -- After a few moments of agony on the toilet, the smell gets too bad, so you go into the hall, thinking your shit-fit is over.
1:01 am -- Something warm covers your legs...both of them
1:02 am -- Your dog licks your legs, and you realize you've been lying on the carpet, shitting yourself.
1:05 am -- You succumb to dehydration and pass out as your legs soak up the spicy yet somehow satisfying flavor of puke and crap.
3:00 am -- You wake up to find your dog dead and rotting in a pile of half-eaten shit.
5:00am -- You finish cleaning up the massive shit/blood stains all over your bathroom.
8:03am -- You go to Taco Bell again.
8:04am -- You realize that the line's too damn long and instead go to McDonald's.
Repeat as necessary.
Aren't they supposed to work to protect us from these type of stories. Does not /. rate a Patriot group, are we not as good as Digg?
Probably just staying out of the uninformed, over-indoctrinated, Obama-sucking-off, liberal pit of douchebaggery that Slashdot has become where going against the herd gets you nothing but grief and burned karma.
1. How can tiny amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere affect the global temperature ?
There is only 0.039% CO2. CO2 must then have some enormous heating mechanism.
Has this heating been confirmed in the lab and/or is there a physical explanation ?
2. The weather-forecasters doesn't seem to be able to predict how much rain there
will be in, say, 2 days, with high accuracy. Yet, they claim there will be 30% more rain in
30 years. Why is the accuracy higher for long-term forecasts ? The same goes for
temperature.
copy paste much?