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New York City-sized ice collapses off Antarctica (Wilkins ice shelf breaking into icebergs)
Reuters on Yahoo ^
| 4/28/09
| Alister Doyle
Posted on 04/28/2009 6:51:16 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Interesting Times
I think that would have been noticed.
I also. I don't see anybody trying to explain it though.
Something has to be causing it.
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posted on
04/28/2009 8:25:42 PM PDT
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: NormsRevenge
The trend is widely blamed on climate change caused by heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels, according to David Vaughan, a British Antarctic Survey scientist who landed by plane on the Wilkins ice bridge with two Reuters reporters in January.
Should read: The trend is
mistakenly blamed on climate change caused by heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels, according to David Vaughan, a British Antarctic Survey scientist who landed by plane on the Wilkins ice bridge with two Reuters reporters in January.
See
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: How Fast Could It Collapse? for a dose of reality.
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posted on
04/28/2009 8:25:47 PM PDT
by
aruanan
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To: MarkeyD
I posted before thinking on this one. But is end of summer there.
To: NormsRevenge
Were any polar bears and penguins killed?
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posted on
04/29/2009 12:13:07 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Your action becomes your habit. Your habit becomes your character, that becomes your destiny)
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