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Cracks Signal Massive Iceberg Forming In Antarctica
Several readers have submitted news (as covered by an AFP article carried by the Sydney Morning Herald) that a massive iceberg is forming in the Antarctic. The rift in the PIne Island Glacier "is widening at a rate of two metres a day, said NASA project scientist Michael Studinger. When the ice breaks apart, it will produce an iceberg more than 880 square kilometres, said Mr Studinger, who is part of the US space agency's IceBridge project. But the process is not a result of global warming, he said." Also at the BBC.
Hang on though, just by bringing up the issue, it's been dragged into the, uh, "debate". I'm pretty sure a snake oil peddling ecomental will chip in soon shrieking that it is Man Made Accelerated Climate KillDeathMurder Change, and that it's denying it makes you a tool of the corporate oppressors (now buy my book from Amazon).
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Certainly. There's a world of difference between IPCC conclusions, and stuff that Green Peace will say. The IPCC tends to be, well, scientific. There's some bias in the IPCC - they tend to be believers, and tend to eliminating errors that work against them but not the errors in their favor. On the other hand, the whole organization is incredibly conservative - they don't buy the whole "precautionary principle" thing.