The recent discovery that the glacier has markedly sped up over the last decade has provoked a flurry of research interest in Pine Island Glacier and its ice shelf, whose sudden changes are almost undoubtedly caused by climate change and warming oceans in the region.
The planet has a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
10 posted on 02/01/2012 8:58:40 PM PST by Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
