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To: John Semmens
"No it doesn't. If it were getting cooler the ice wouldn't break off as much or maybe the pieces would be bigger or maybe there wouldn't be so much open water and the ice would reattach to other pieces before it could drift out to sea."

Your dead wrong. If the glaciers/ice fields were melting, they shrink, and stop moving towards the warmer sea where they normaly break off and float out. What causes them to flow is the constant gaining of mass, which forces them to flow like a frozen river. As it flows to warmer water, they break off. It's an cycle.

When it gets warmer, you will have LESS iceburgs, because they shrink inwards/inland, when they are growing, they expand outwards, and you get MORE icebergs.

68 posted on 02/02/2007 10:57:25 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary

Ice bergs at the North Pole can come from ice already floating on the water.

We don't have to prove the Earth isn't warming in order to counter the absurd "solutions" posed by the left.

The Earth goes through cycles of warmer and colder. We now have the technology to influence global temperatures. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen is the latest scientist to advocate the release of sulfur dioxide particles in the upper atmosphere should we ever wish to cool the Earth in response to anthropogenic global warming.

climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels says "the real issue for the twenty-first century is not how much will the planet warm, which we can fairly confidently say will be at the low end of IPCC estimates, but "what do we want the temperature to be?"

"We really do have, in a crude manner, the ability to set the surface temperature of the Earth to within 1 or 2 degrees Celsius of where we want it to be. The debate should be, Where do we want to set it?"



121 posted on 02/02/2007 1:21:37 PM PST by John Semmens
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