00BNZ wrote:
> "Ouroboros_Rex" wrote in message
> news:fse5lc$e0n$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
>> "Tunderbar" wrote in message
>> news:8a6c2688-a12a-47c9-9b64-1c0f85eb453f@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>> On Mar 26, 10:57 am, Roger Coppock wrote:
>>> Huge Chunk Of Antarctic Ice Collapses
>>> Global Warming Blamed For Ice Shelf Collapse That Puts Larger Area At
>>> Risk
>>> Please see:
>>> ttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/tech/main3968165.shtml
>>
>> It's the end of summer in the southern hemisphere. It happens.
>> Cite please.
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> ROTFLMAO.
> Read the rest of the article and you will read the following ...
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> QUOTE: "Much of the continent is not warming and some parts are even
> cooling, Vaughan said. However, the western peninsula, which includes
> the Wilkins ice shelf, juts out into the ocean and is warming. "
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> ALSO NB:
> There is a small area of significant warming in the peninsula that
> points towards South America, but this is less than 2% of Antarctica's
> total land mass.
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> Extract From: More Ice Than Ever In Antarctica
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> Patrick J. Michaels
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> February 5, 2008
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> http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1727
That's what I saw on the news. A piddly little ice cube compared to the
entire continent. The visual was right, but the dialog was produced to
sensationalize it way out of proportion. I think the media is half the
problem with these radical . heads.
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