Breakaway Bergs Disrupt Antarctic Ecosystem

Environmental News Service ^ | 05/09/2002

[cogitator]

While interesting, the article indicates no long-term disruptions to the Antarctic ecosystem.

[Future Useless Eater]

from... Ice on the move a warning of warming, or is it?

While earth's northern hemisphere has warmed about one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution began, there is equally compelling satellite data suggesting that the rest of the world is actually cooling.

Satellite measurements of temperatures in the troposphere, and independent measurements from balloons, show no evidence of significant global warming over the past 22 years, according to John Christy, the director of the Earth System Science Centre at the University of Alabama. .

[Future Useless Eater]

here's more...

Alaska, where the Columbia Glacier is rapidly retreating, has been warmer in recent decades. But Greenland, where the ice edge also is thinning, has been colder, said ice expert Joe McConnell, at the Desert Research Institute, Nevada.

In the same way, the Antarctic Peninsula has been warming steadily. But on the other side of the continent, Antarctica's Dry Valleys - the polar region's only ice-free areas - have been getting colder. At the South Pole, temperatures recently have dropped as low as minus 77 degrees, the coldest there in 40 years.

[pepsionice]

Who will save the Penqiuns? We must prepare the Marines for a massive rescue mission.

[sandydipper]

Slowly - very slowly we are killing ouselves.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

On one side of the contenent the ice is warming and getting colder on the other side. I recall that scientists belive ocean currents are presently pusing warm water under the Ross ice shelf and that it is a temporary event lasting several years and not necessarily related to global warming. But the greens make hay of it anyway!

[KC Burke]

Slowly - very slowly we are killing ouselves.

Try watching a little less Dan Rather, chum.

[boris]

Glue them back on with super glue!

[Cicero]

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?

--Psalms, 89:48

[cogitator]

On one side of the contenent the ice is warming and getting colder on the other side. I recall that scientists belive ocean currents are presently pusing warm water under the Ross ice shelf and that it is a temporary event lasting several years and not necessarily related to global warming. But the greens make hay of it anyway!

Yes, it's easy to forget how big Antarctica is. We wouldn't expect climate processes to be the same on the East and West Coasts of the United States, either.

[ElkGroveDan]

I'm really excited about this. Antarctica is a really huge piece of land. Just think if a lot of that ice melts there will be plenty of opportunities for land speculation, mining, residential and vacation home building.

The 24-hour sunlight during the winter months could have huge implications for certain manufacturing industries, not to mention agriculture and tourism. Imagine round-the-clock skiing, sailing, amusement parks. The possibilities are endless.

[nothingnew]

I'll take 3 fingers of Jose' Cuervo straight up...NO ICE!

(Is it FRiday yet?)

FMCDH

[nothingnew]

Slowly - very slowly we are killing ouselves.

Agreed!...I started the day I was born.

BWAHAHAHA!!!

FMCDH

[dead]

Slowly - very slowly we are killing ouselves.

Should take each of us about 80 years, give or take 20.

[ValerieUSA]

The breakaway icebergs are part of the ecosystem of the area.... just like the Cascade mountain range, including the volcanos, is part of the ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest.

[Delbert]

The breakaway iceberg = The New Palestinian Homeland.

[ValerieUSA]

Very clever! *L* Let them desecrate the desolation.

[StormEye]

"On the Antarctic Peninsula, a piece broke away from the Larsen B ice shelf in the largest single event in a 30 year series of ice shelf retreats, reducing the shelf to a size not seen for some 12,000 years."

Oh really? Some person saw the shelf 12,000 years ago and noted its size? I stopped reading the article when I was saw this. Sounds like more global baloney, American civilizaton is detroying the earth hysteria.

[StormEye]

"Sounds like more global baloney, American civilizaton is detroying the earth hysteria."

Man I hate typos! ".... American civilization is destroying the earth hysteria." Now, all corrected.

[Ole Okie]

Slowly - very slowly we are killing ouselves.

Agreed!...I started the day I was born.

Yeah, and I'm still going !

Where does it say in my contract that I get to live forever? Outside my religious beliefs, that is.