Recent Warming of Antarctica "Unusual But Not Unprecedented"

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Recent Warming of Antarctica "Unusual But Not Unprecedented"

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 23, 2012 @02:30AM from the earth-ain't-static dept.

First time accepted submitter tomhath writes with a link to the abstract (full article paywalled) in Nature of an "Ice core study that concludes that climate change and associated melting of ice in Antarctica is more the norm than the exception, including rapid warming cycles as we appear to be in today. Study concludes: 'Although warming of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula began around 600 years ago, the high rate of warming over the past century is unusual (but not unprecedented) in the context of natural climate variability over the past two millennia. The connection shown here between past temperature and ice-shelf stability suggests that warming for several centuries rendered ice shelves on the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula vulnerable to collapse.'"

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Round 783 by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-23 02:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Let the Global Warming flame-wars begin!
1. Re:Round 783 by starless · 2012-08-23 04:25 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  WRONG. There was NEVER consensus as to the cooling. Not ever. In fact, it was never more then a tiny percent of climatologist.
  You can try to pretend that cooling was "never" predicted. However, the inconvenient truth is that the seminal, and highly cited, work of Strummer et al. (1979) clearly predicted an incipient increase in ice coverage. As they stated (repeatedly):
  The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
  Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
  At least, that's the only work I know of from that era that predicts another ice age soon...
Re:Soon... by dildos_akimbo · 2012-08-23 02:49 · Score: 4, Funny

I for one welcome our new...old....ones overlords!
Re:Mod story down by NatasRevol · 2012-08-23 03:04 · Score: 4, Funny

Shut up, you stupid, justified shill of a troll.

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Re:Extinctions by dietdew7 · 2012-08-23 03:24 · Score: 5, Funny

How old are you?
JUST SAY NO TO FLASH! by Thud457 · 2012-08-23 03:38 · Score: 3, Funny

By my calculations, if everybody ran flashblock, we could reduce global warming by 17,000,000,000,000,000 Watts a year. Better bring a sweater.

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Published by Creationists against climate change! by Paracelcus · 2012-08-23 04:13 · Score: 1, Funny

And Mothers against Gay Marriage, Hillbillies for (foreign religious book that starts with a K) burning and rednecks for capital punishment!
And the Flat Earth Society!

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Re:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! by styrotech · 2012-08-23 09:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Ah, you idiot deniers crack me up, so you do.
Hehe - hook, line and sinker.
Hint: Strummer's first name was Joe. Though to be fair, he was more an observer of the political climate rather than the actual climate.