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Second giant ice island set to break off Greenland glacier
MSNBC ^ | updated 9/1/2011 10:43:21 AM ET | By Ian Johnston

Posted on 09/06/2011 9:23:40 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 09/06/2011 9:32:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Petermann Glacier seen in August, 2009. The cliffs on the left are about 3,000 feet high, about the same height as three Eiffel Towers or more than two Willis Towers.

Taken nearly two years after the picture above, this photo shows the extent of the ice loss. The channel is about ten miles wide.


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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarminghoax; greenland; qattaracanal
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Someone needs to drag that thing to Texas


21 posted on 09/06/2011 10:07:11 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: combat_boots

I thought “Glow Bull Warming” cause Glaciers to retreat? This one is advancing into the ocean like it’s supposed to.


22 posted on 09/06/2011 10:15:34 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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23 posted on 09/06/2011 10:21:06 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Vaduz

“No word from the wise ones why Mars is heating up too.”

The Mars Rover had a big-block 350 without any emission controls.


24 posted on 09/06/2011 10:22:04 AM PDT by fruser1
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25 posted on 09/06/2011 10:36:36 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Qatarra Depression looks modest enough on a two dimensional map, but did you ever get a good look at it from the air on Google Earth or something of that nature?

A lot of people forget that Rommel and Montgomery spent months fighting over that narrow strip of land between the depression and the coast precisely because it was impossible to do a flanking maneuver. It was only when the Americans got involved and Rommel had to spread out his forces defending two fronts that Montgomery broke through.

I think we both know what the Global Warming fascists would do if any serious proposal to dig the short ditch from the ocean to the northeast corner of the depression ever got underway but it would still be fun to expose the hypocrisy.

26 posted on 09/06/2011 10:36:57 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Yes, glaciers do calve icebergs. Since we are on the edge of the next ice age it’s no surprise that this glacier is producing such massive icebergs.

It find it rather amusing that these Leftists who call themselves climate scientists have discovered that icebergs melt!


27 posted on 09/06/2011 10:51:08 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m holding the deed to it, anybody want to buy an island? ;^)


28 posted on 09/06/2011 11:15:38 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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29 posted on 09/06/2011 12:25:50 PM PDT by greatplains
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

As the ice builds up in the interior the ice will begin to flow down hill. The leading edge of the ice on the seacoast will calve large and small icebergs. That is all that is going on here.

Been doing it for millions of years.


30 posted on 09/06/2011 12:38:04 PM PDT by texmexis best
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
more than two Willis Towers

Wow !!! /sarc
31 posted on 09/06/2011 12:39:24 PM PDT by Scythian
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32 posted on 09/06/2011 1:38:43 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Vigilanteman; Ernest_at_the_Beach

You can send all the runoff to Texas.

We’ll take the water, no questions asked.


33 posted on 09/06/2011 3:03:44 PM PDT by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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To: Vaduz
" No word from the wise ones why Mars is heating up too. "

They are to busy protesting their own Global Warming on Mars.
34 posted on 09/06/2011 3:12:11 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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