From the LA Times - “Chunk of Ice Shelf Collapses Putting Larger Area at Risk”
From the accompanying article:
Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica that started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins Ice Shelf and had been there for perhaps 1,500 years.British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan attributed the melting to rising sea temperature due to global warming.
Scientists said that while they were not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, it was a sign of worsening global warming.
Such occurrences are “more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system,” said Sarah B. Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
“These are things that are not re-forming,” Das said. “So once they’re gone, they’re gone.”
I’m sure in retrospect, no one will regret having missed any opportunities in these past eight years in addressing global warming. Nope, no problem here at all. Bush has been a fantastic president. So much better than that liar, know-it-all Gore.
(Note, photos are credited to government entity and appear to be in public domain.)
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you know, i meant to post on this
and i’m so right there with you on the post title. i may not know exactly how and why, but i’m fairly sure all this melting i keep reading about “can’t be good.” whatever else it may mean.
msnbc: too stupid for science reporting. the idiot editing/writing the story “translated” a 2.5C rise in temps over fifty years to “37F” rise in the same period. because when it’s 2.5commie degrees out, it’s 37 Freedom Degrees, so therefore a 2.5C rise means 37 in our temps.
idiots.
Ice, shmice
Plenty more where that came from.
[sarcasm alert]
“Mr. Lazio pledged to release his tax returns soon after entering the Senate race in May, but had not done so… his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized the delay, asking whether he was hiding something.”
I Walked By The Photo This Morning
and that’s what I thought, too, cd - this can’t be good. I’m a lawyer, not a scientist, so like you I have no idea of why it can’t be good, but just an instinctual reaction (survival instinct?) that this is a sign of very bad things.
I wonder what Colin Powell's satellite specialists are up to
“Let me say a word about satellite images before I show a couple. The photos that I am about to show you are sometimes hard for the average person to interpret, hard for me. The painstaking work of photo analysis takes experts with years and years of experience, pouring for hours and hours over light tables. But as I show you these images, I will try to capture and explain what they mean, what they indicate to our imagery specialists.”
I’m betting they’re figuring out how Iran made this happen.