Mammoth iceberg could alter ocean circulation: study

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 2/25/10 | Marlowe Hood

[NormsRevenge]

Penguins (C) drift on an ice floe beneath a cathedral iceberg in the Southern Ocean in the Australian Antarctic Territory in 2006. An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday. (AFP/AAD-HO/File/Chris Wilson)

[Berlin_Freeper]

Luxembourg is tiny.

[NormsRevenge]

Artist Vincent J.F. Huang's installation "Suicide Penguins", a comment on global warming, hangs below the Millennium Bridge in front of the Swiss RE building (known as the Gherkin) in London February 13, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT)

[NormsRevenge]

Artist Vincent J.F. Huang's installation artwork "Suicide Penguins", a comment on global warming using glass penguins and a stuffed toy polar bear, hangs below the Millennium Bridge in London February 13, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)

[omega4179]

The world is DOOMED!

[nmh]

I’m just petrified!

LOL!!!

When will they stop this idiotic gloBULL warming **it?

[tarheelswamprat]

An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday.

Nonsense.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

I thought I was the one disrupting ocean current by using gasoline in my car. I cannot believe I have been replaced with a hunk of ice.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Another Alarmists Headline....???

[NormsRevenge]

LOL

It’s Ze FRench. ;-)

[Yaelle]

This is not true unless the iceberg were driving an SUV and exhaling CO2. No way can nature cause anything bad. The world was perfect until someone put humans here. Maybe it was Al Gore’s mom.

[Tarpon]

Iceberg broke off, probably due to ocean waves, no global warming junk science involved ... But you know they will try, don’t you.

[cripplecreek]

So in other words, its doing what icebergs do.

[metmom]

And if you believe that, I’ve got some global warming to sell you.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How are the penguins gonna get home???

[cripplecreek]

I want to know what Obama is going to do to confront the threat posed by this killer iceberg.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

How are the penguins gonna get home???

This is serious...will Obama send a rescue vehicle...??

[Aussiebabe]

FYI.. this is time at the end of the summer in the Southern Hemisphere that the ice starts to grow again in the Antarctica. Please note that the ice level is slightly above the average since they began satellite measurement of the extent each year:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/s_plot_daily.html

Also note that total ice has continued to grow (not decrease) since records began:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png

[NormsRevenge]

The UN will probably fund a penguin relocation program.

[darkwing104]

How can we have Icebergs with all this Globull Warming?

Did someone lie to us?