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City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica
LeadSongDog writes "Germany's TerraSAR-X satellite is showing that the Antarctic's Pine Island ice shelf has calved a 'berg of 720 square kilometres, 'the size of Hamburg.' Angelika Humbert says 'The Western Antarctic land ice is on land which is deeper than sea level. Its "bed" tends towards the land. The danger therefore exists that these large ice masses will become unstable and will start to slide.' The article extrapolates that 'If the entire West Antarctic ice shield were to flow into the Ocean, this would lead to a global rise in sea level of around 3.3 meters.' Goodbye Florida.
And constantly blathering on about how evil we are as a whole and that we are destroying the planet and that we are causing the climate to no longer be in stasis... is so much more intelligent. Just ponder that last bit. The main complaint of the AGW (ACC) crowd is that we have caused the climate to change. The proof is that the climate is changing. That means the assumption is that the climate would never change if it weren't for the evil humans. That requires accepting that the climate has never changed. And that requires ignoring a vast amount of physical evidence as well as written and oral history. And I am in denial?!? wtf