Massive Ice Chunk Collapses in Antarctica

Associated Press ^ | 3/25/08

[Bommer]

So anyone want to take any bets on which coastal city will now be 30 feet under water?

[VeniVidiVici]

It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years."

Wow! Out of a few billion years, I'm impressed!

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

To: Ted Scambos, David Vaughan. Sarah Das and especially The “AP-ROPRIATED” Press

Here’s Your Sign

“Why can't they get the picture?
Why don't they understand?
We're not dealing with the planet of apes, we're talking about the modern man.
So you people with them itsy bitsy teensie weensie tiny minds...
Here's your sign.

”I just hate stupid people.
They should have to wear signs that just say I'm stupid.
That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you?
You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, ‘Excuse me...oops, never mind’
‘I didn't see your sign’."

[kc8ukw]

This is the result of global warming

Global warming is supposed to describe a general climate trend. To attribute with certainty any particular event to it is ridiculous.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

160 square mile chunk of ice falls into 140 MILLION square miles of ocean. Can you say "spit in the ocean"?

[hubel458]

I call bullshit as the game goes. The slight climate shift
is a mechanism we can’t control. The cooling on
Antarctica balances out warming in other places.
And overall the average is cooling, causing
the ice to break away from Antarctica. Here is how.
Said shift in climate has caused much more snow and
ice to pile up at south pole thus pushing out the ice
over warmer water where it breaks off. Antartica is
a big ice block setting on a few islands under
a mile deep of ice, and ice has a plastic nature where
if it is piled high enough it wants to flow from
the built up depth creating pressure. Ice and glacier losses elsewhere has piled up on Antartica which by the
is almost as big as Canada.. That is why the losses
elsewhere hasn’t caused a huge rise in sea levels.
And the only thing we humans did was accidently stop
any major rises in sea levels. Ed

[fire and forget]

Every time I fly over that massive, ice-entombed island, I’m reminded that Greenland was actually green less than a thousand years ago. Have had some great chats with Europeans and English on some of those flights. It’s really hard to believe global warming is serious science looking at that desparately frigid landscape.

[Slip18]

You are not filling up the Grand Canyon. We’ll take about 300 feet of it, but that’s all.

[Slip18]

Exactly.

[Slip18]

Post it. You know we want photos, but not photoshops.

[ASOC]

So, had anyone called dibs on this iceburg?

Bet I could tow it to Califlower or Sandy Arabia and make a mint....

[verum ago]

Bad news- Milankovitch Orbital Climate theory predicts increased warming over the next thousands of years- and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it unless we can change Earth’s orbit.

(Buying Gorebulbs does not change the orbit).

Wait— what happens if we launch the Gorebulbs into orbit? Or maybe completely encase the sun in a sphere of solar panels, then use them to power to the Gorebulbs in orbit on an adjustable-Global-Warming-fighting dimmer switch. Oh, or perhaps we should launch all the polar bears into the freezing cold vacuum of orbit, thus saving them from rising temperatures and rising CO₂ levels! And with their white coats, they'll also reflect sunlight back to the sun and stop warming here! Dang, we could do that too with this antarctic ice shelf- use it as an orbital reflector and also thereby avoid raising sea levels by removing it from the sea entirely! Quick, someone tell the IPCC so I can get grant money!

[Slip18]

Go Stupid Ice Man!

[Gondring]

Basically it is a net zero.

If it's free-floating ice that melts, then yes.

If it's ice that was on land, then it will raise the sea level in the short term (however, removal of the ice will cause very slow isostatic rebound of the land itself over thousands of years. :-)

[Styria]

That only works for the Arctic. Antarctica is a continent; the ice is on land and not displacing seawater.

[Slip18]

No, no, no, no. Which city will be 30 feet above their normal sea level?

[Gondring]

[Content Provider]

Since it is already on the thread, me posting it again wouldn't prove that I have it on my computer.

Here's an alternative for ya:

[TheMole]

Antarctic Ice Grows To Record Levels

By Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo

. 12 Sep 07 - The Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979. The Southern Hemispheric areal coverage is the highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up for the total Antarctic ice extent.

While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. This dichotomy was shown in a World Climate Report blog posted recently with a similar tale told by Ohio State Researcher David Bromwich, who agreed: “It’s hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now.”

Indeed, according the NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about 1 degree F since 1957 and the coldest year was 2004. This winter has been an especially harsh one in the Southern Hemisphere with cold and snow records set in Australia, South America and Africa. We will have recap on this hard winter shortly.

This is what I’ve been saying for years - that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing thicker. The Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some five million square miles, twice as big as the contiguous United States. It’s almost 100 times bigger than all of the rest of the world’s glaciers put together.

In other words, more than 90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing. But all we hear about is the ones that are melting.

I consider that to be biased reporting.

See entire article with links to graphics and other papers mentioned: A New Record for Antarctic Total Ice

Thanks to Alan Caruba for this link

Antarctic Ice Grows to Record Levels

[FlingWingFlyer]

Here’s a similar picture (scroll down about halfway) from the “Greenpeace” site that accompanies this great editorial from a guy in Vermont. Freepers will love the caption below the “Greenpeace” picture of the cracked ice. Any of that sound familiar to anyone? LOL!

http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html