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NASA: 10,000-year-old Antarctic ice shelf will disappear by 2020
CNN ^ | May 17, 2015 | Jareen Imam

Posted on 05/17/2015 3:55:42 PM PDT by PROCON

(CNN)—One of the last remaining sections of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf is dramatically weakening, according to a new NASA study.

The study predicts that what remains of the once-prominent ice shelf, a thick floating platform of ice, most likely will "disintegrate completely" before the end of this decade

Ice shelves are extensions of glaciers and function as barriers. Their disappearance means glaciers potentially will diminish more quickly, as well, increasing the pace at which global sea levels rise.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bs; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; iceshelf; muslimoutreach; nasa
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To: umgud

these are the same dopes who are telling us that the earth is overcrowded...

they have clearly never been aloft in a modern flying machine and looked out of the windows of same to note the enormous expanses of unpeopled land down there.


41 posted on 05/17/2015 4:44:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: umgud

Watch out - evaporation will increase the weight of the air ... causing it to FALL DOWN! Then we’ll all die from the collisions!


42 posted on 05/17/2015 4:45:35 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: TexasCajun

Who instructed them to say this? no funding if you dont play nice, hows that islamic feel good agenda working?


43 posted on 05/17/2015 4:46:14 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: PROCON

44 posted on 05/17/2015 4:47:52 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: PROCON
Doomed photo: Doomed doomed3.gif
45 posted on 05/17/2015 4:51:21 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: katana

The environmentalists have admitted in another article that Antarctic ice is increasing. The Australians have a base station and the Aussies have to change the way that they supply the base because the ice field is growing.


46 posted on 05/17/2015 4:51:40 PM PDT by citizen352 (I have done no harm. But I remember now. l am in this earthly world...)
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To: PROCON

If God wants it to melt, it will melt.


47 posted on 05/17/2015 4:52:47 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: 9thLife

What?


48 posted on 05/17/2015 4:53:10 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: PROCON

NASA can’t even get Americans off of Earth anymore.

But Moslem esteem NASA rules.


49 posted on 05/17/2015 4:56:39 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: PROCON
The area covered by Antarctic sea ice has been growing roughly 1.2% each decade since 1979. Last September, it reached a record 20 million square kilometers surrounding the 14 square kilometer continent. The combined 34 million square kilometers of ice at the end of the austral winter is more than 3.5 times the area of the United States.

Oh, and the article that observes this STILL blames it on Global Warming.

LOL!

50 posted on 05/17/2015 4:58:46 PM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: PROCON

Even if they are right, have any of them been alive for 10,000 years to see how the ice developed? Do they honestly think it should be there for all time?

They are trying to rationalize geological time and quantify it to the lifespan of a human. Therefore the argument is already fundamentally flawed. I bet many geologists and astronomers don’t believe in global warming. Mostly it’s just politicians and people who have been labelled scientists by (here comes the shocker) career politicians.


51 posted on 05/17/2015 5:00:14 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: PROCON

One small slice of the Antarctic, I believe.

Other sections have record ice, as we all have read recently.

How about a map showing ALL, with color coding indicating more/less ice, NASA?

Or has your logic become Islamic...e.g. lying and deceitful?


52 posted on 05/17/2015 5:01:11 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: jsanders2001

Ah, but that is the Arctic. Since that prediction proved to be as wrong as can be, they now have switched to the Antarctic. It buys them 5 more years. One can only wonder where they will have to run to when this prediction proves to be as wrong as the prediction by Gore regarding the Arctic. I’m guessing they are hoping they have their controls firmly in their grasp by then.


53 posted on 05/17/2015 5:02:43 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Ouderkirk

That’s what the fanatical left does not realize.

They’ve been pushing their stack incrementally for years. Ours has not moved. So they don’t know where it’s headed, or if we will even bet.

Once they push all in. Our stack will suddenly move and it will all be over then.


54 posted on 05/17/2015 5:02:57 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: PROCON

This ice is FLOATING on the sea, so therefore it displaces any water it would add and actually takes up an equal volume of water that would be added when it melts, so how can it cause any rise in ocean levels? This is the quality of “science” we can expect from these AGW types???


55 posted on 05/17/2015 5:04:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Morpheus2009

They aren’t scientists. They are people like Al Gore pretending to be scientists. Guy probably couldn’t even pass a high school chemistry, or physics class. Yet people believe it. Because Mr. Gore can fill real scientists pockets and bank accounts for them to simply claim “he’s right.”


56 posted on 05/17/2015 5:05:44 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: PROCON

If it weren’t for “global warming” — Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.


57 posted on 05/17/2015 5:05:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

Wholly crap.


58 posted on 05/17/2015 5:10:22 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: PROCON

NASA will disappear by 2020.


59 posted on 05/17/2015 5:12:14 PM PDT by Thud
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To: PROCON

It will disappear because it will be covered by ice miles thick and a bazillion square miles bigger than the continent is today.


60 posted on 05/17/2015 5:12:45 PM PDT by stevem
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