Ice mass snaps free from Canada's arctic (a big 'un too,, 11,000 football fields in size)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/28/06 | Rob Gillies - ap

[FlingWingFlyer]

...the size of 11,000 football fields...

About how many NASCAR tracks would that be?

[NautiNurse]

[NittanyLion]

In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.

10 years? Well, obviously he's the foremost authority on this subject and is not to be questioned.

[brytlea]

LOL!
susie

[Always Right]

This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are loosing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years.

LOL, thank goodness. Go back a mere 15,000 years and much of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan were covered by glacier. The Great Lakes were nothing but a big ice cube. Gee, the good ole days before the SUV.

[technomage]

In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said

That is like saying "I have watched so-and-so's hair for ten minutes and saw no growth. Therefore my conclusion is hair does not grow".

[Dallas59]

Where was BUSH???

[Apercu]

In the immortal words of Mr. Bill......'Ohhh..Noooooooooo!

[jazusamo]

I would think it more appropriate to tell us how many hockey rinks it would be.

[hsmomx3]

He would make the perfect Frankenstein.

[ritewingwarrior]

Maybe he should have worked there longer. Follow this link.

http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-1-15.pdf

In 1984 this study was done in Canada. The first page kind of says it all.

" Between 1959 and 1974 a total of 48sqkm calved off from Milne and Ayles ice shelves. In addition, the Ayles Ice Shelf moved about 5km out into Ayles Ford"

Not quite 66 sqkm but close. And it sounds as if the shelf broke off rather recently within a few decades, and somehow reattached itself. No mention of that in the story, but there is a significant emphasis that the ice is 3000 years old and ancient. Making it seem as if this has been the same for 3000 years. Next at the bottom left of the first page.

"The largest observed ice calving occurred at Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (just north of Ayles) where almost 600SQKM, broke off between 1961 and 1962.

The media makes this whole issue into a doom situation, when the real doom is with our economy and all this dam taxation, and rampant population growth.

[LibWhacker]

Humans!

[Izzy Dunne]

the size of 11,000 football fields

Is that Canadian football fields (110x65 yards) or American football fields (100x53 yards)?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

We're doomed!

[InvisibleChurch]

It shows that we are loosing remarkable features ...

Oh, great. Not the "loosing" - "losing" debate again.

[jwalsh07]

The Canadian ice shelves are packed with ancient ice that dates back over 3000 years. They float on the sea but are connected to land.

Wow, an eternity. Good thing they banned SUV's for three thousand years.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead,"
Vincent said Thursday.

Or maybe not.

[D-Chivas]

"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are loosing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.

I had to click on the news story just to verify that the cut and paste was correct (it was).

Looks like the AP reporter who wrote this story and the editors above him don't know the difference between loosing and losing, which, in my book, is the telltale sign of a stupid person.

[buffyt]

Sahara Desert was once covered by ocean