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Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Blamed On More Than Climate Change
Science Daily ^
| Feb. 11, 2008
| ScienceDaily
Posted on 02/11/2008 3:42:18 AM PST by Brilliant
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posted on
02/11/2008 3:42:24 AM PST
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Brilliant
To: Brilliant
The largest Antarctic iceberg ever spotted was by the USS Glacier in 1955. It was twice the size of the state of Connecticut. Check it out.
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posted on
02/11/2008 3:46:30 AM PST
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
To: Brilliant; Beowulf; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion
To: Brilliant
The keen interest expressed in the paper has also been a boost to Professor Glassers hopes of raising funds to travel to Antarctica this year to conduct some of his research in the field. Professor, you win an all expense paid trip to ...
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posted on
02/11/2008 3:46:35 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
( Who is America's George Galloway?)
To: blam
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posted on
02/11/2008 3:50:05 AM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: Brilliant
Me and my pet rock,,,,,,,,
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posted on
02/11/2008 3:55:29 AM PST
by
Waco
To: Brilliant
"The keen interest expressed in the paper has also been a boost to Professor Glassers hopes of raising funds to travel to Antarctica this year to conduct some of his research in the field."
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Jackpot! We have a winner!
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:10:38 AM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Mike Huckabee=Bill Clinton. Can we afford another Clinton in the White House...from either party?)
To: Brilliant
...the glaciers that feed them speed up... speeding glaciers?
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:13:25 AM PST
by
vamoose
To: Brilliant
When the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed in 2002, the event appeared to be a sudden response to climate change, and this long, fringing ice shelf in the north west part of the Weddell Sea was assumed to be the latest in a long line of victims of Antarctic summer heat waves linked to Global Warming. Which "victims" and which "heat waves" would those be? And even IF Antarctica is melting, why is that such a bad thing? Seems like the melting ice sheets and rising temperatures (provided that you believe this crap) would free up a bunch of prime real estate. The same goes for up north in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland.
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:14:27 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: Brilliant
For example, the location and spacing of fractures on the ice shelf such as crevasses and rifts are very important too because they determine how strong or weak the ice shelf is. This is a novel concept to the scientists?
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:36:07 AM PST
by
knuthom
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
The same goes for up north in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. Not to mention the extended growing season which equals more food and cheaper food, wine grapes being grown in northern climates like Scotland, etc, just like the last time we had a global warm up during the Medieval Warming Period.....
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:38:54 AM PST
by
Thermalseeker
(Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
To: Brilliant
The fact that they're constantly being feed tells me they have to break off periodically or else the'd just keep growing till, what? they reached the equator? the glaciers that feed them
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:44:26 AM PST
by
DManA
To: Brilliant
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:48:43 AM PST
by
nicmarlo
To: DManA
Of course, during the Ice Ages, the glaciers did reach, if not to the equator, certainly a long way in that direction.
To: Brilliant
There is so much idle speculation in this article, disguised as fact, that its hard to believe it is anything but intentional. To expose just a few:
"when the ice shelves collapse the glaciers that feed them speed up and get thinner, so they supply more ice to the oceans"Show me the data an ice shelf hundreds, or even thousands of miles from a glacier, influences its flow rate.
"numerical modeling by other scientists at NASA and CPOM (Centre of Polar Observation and Modeling) had pointed to an ice shelf in distress for decades previously." Global temperatures have only been rising since the mid '70s. Before that they had fallen, for decades. They have fallen for the last decade. How can this explain "ice shelf distress for decades"?
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posted on
02/11/2008 4:50:40 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
To: Brilliant
If he didn’t add gloal warming back in he would lose his funding and/or his job.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:01:04 AM PST
by
arthurus
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:02:26 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
To: nicmarlo
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:08:39 AM PST
by
Halgr
(Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
To: Brilliant
Its the height of the summer in Antarctica right now and temperatures are 3C to 9C below normal so there is NO melting going on in Antarctica this year at all (given only a few areas near the coast reach 0C in the summer.)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
02/11/2008 7:16:33 AM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
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