Arctic ice shelf splits

BBC News ^ | Tuesday, 23 September, 2003 | NA

[pa_dweller]

Refreshingly, no one is blamed. They only mention 'climate change' and warming without attributing it to SUV's

[Blast Radius]

Heh, good point.
The global warming freaks want everyone to suppose the climate was always static before the Industrial Age.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm inclined to think that there is an entirely different thought on this that isn't contained in this article. This was written by three scientists.

[Sacajaweau]

Suppose that scientists "calculated" that another ice age was coming? Would they buy us all an SUV?

Taking away SUVs is just as stupid.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its happened before. It'll happen again.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

WE MUST SIGN KYOTO NOW!!

SUV'S ARE KILLING THE EARTH!!

NO WAR FOR OIL!!


(sorry...I was having a knee-jerk Liberal moment)

[Guillermo]

It's the GOP's fault.

After all, we know how much Republicans hate ice.

[familyofman]

Miners that ignore dead canaries in the mine soon follow. If you want to ignore the clear signals from the planet and make inane comments about SUVs - feel free, but the signs of global warming are there. It's probably too late to do anything about the changes in climate, whether natural or man-influenced.
We've paid our money - now we get to takes our chances. One more spin of the Chuc'o'luck wheel.

[gedeon3]

It's Bush's fault!!!!!!! He does not care about our children; he cares only about big oil and his rich friends!!!!!!!!

[Ditter]

Oh dear, I guess my spring baby seal hunt will have to be cancelled. Darn! ///<:9>///

[PBRSTREETGANG]

After all, we know how much Republicans hate ice.

Yup. Whiskey, neat. Martinis, up.

[RadioAstronomer]

Bttt.

Patrick? Worth a ping list bump?

[Prodigal Son]

The huge mass of floating ice, which has been in place for at least 3,000 years

I wonder where the ice shelf was before that?

[FairWitness]

The huge mass of floating ice, which has been in place for at least 3,000 years, is now in two major pieces.

This does not sound to me like a system that was meant to last "forever".

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I wonder where the ice shelf was before that?

In my freezer.

[cookcounty]

"And if we are losing them, we are losing the opportunity to study life earlier in Earth history and elsewhere in the Solar System."

Dreamland junk-science alert.

[LibWhacker]

Refreshingly, no one is blamed.

That's true, but I still thought the tone of the article verged on the hysterical. IMO, the only thing changing from a scientific point of view is our understanding of the earth's natural cycles.

[Montfort]

Another important point to remember is that when Arctic ice melts, it does not raise world water levels much, if at all, because IT IS ALREADY FROZEN WATER FLOATING IN LIQUID WATER.

Not so with much of the Antarctic ice, which, when it melts, goes from being up on land to being in the water. Even then, if the Antarctic ice that melts is not up on land, but rather in the Antarctic Ocean, its melting will not raise water levels much (if any) either.

Someone who knows more than I do could tell us how the floating ice above the surface would affect water levels when it melts. As we know, most floating ice is below the surface, so I don't know how much this matters anyway.

[ICE-FLYER]

Once more the "Global Change" liars are on the march. Their arrogance is amazing. Claiming to have any idea as to the direction of the global climate is borderline psychotic.

For years I have been taking many of the worlds leading minds on the issue to Antarctica and to Greenland. Many of them do not dare suppose to speak in absolutes when it comes to such events. The fact remains, their claims of the earths age alone tells us all that their miniscule amount of collected data from RECENTLY invented devices that could accurately give them indications can not be trusted to give ANY kind of trend in one direction or another.

The current breed of world huggers who preach to us the end of the earth as we know it due to mankind are the very people who gre up worshiping the scientists who were telling us of the coming ice age in the 1970's

Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills would dismiss much of this garbage. I walked into a science museum in St. Louis this past summer and wanted to throw up. Their preaching to our children in absolute terms their theories that have never been proven from evolution to global climate and its massive variables that can't even be completly measured.

Frauds of the worst order and home to the socialists of the world, thats what I consider them.