[Citizen Tom Paine]

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.

[steelyourfaith]

Beam me to Planet Gore !

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[gov_bean_ counter]

The keen interest expressed in the paper has also been a boost to Professor Glasser’s 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 ...

[Jet Jaguar]

of interest? ping.

[Waco]

Me and my pet rock,,,,,,,,

[Sudetenland]

"The keen interest expressed in the paper has also been a boost to Professor Glasser’s 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!

[vamoose]

...the glaciers that feed them speed up...

speeding glaciers?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

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.

[knuthom]

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?

[DManA]

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

[nicmarlo]

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
National Geographic News | February 28, 2007

Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human-induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory....

[norwaypinesavage]

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"?

[arthurus]

If he didn’t add gloal warming back in he would lose his funding and/or his job.

[JustDoItAlways]

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.)