"00BNZ" <00BNZ@dooooooooodoooooo.com> wrote in message
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> Some perspective On Hyped Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses
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> Posted by jennifer
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> March 26, 2008
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> http://www.jennifermarohasy.com/blog/archives/002869.html
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> There is an Australian e-journal that is popular with many
> government-types called crikey.com.au. Today the lead story began,
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> "A chunk of ice seven times the size of Manhattan (as big as the Isle
> of Man if you prefer a more Anglo-centric news source) is hanging by a
> thread to the main, still-frozen body of the western Antarctic.
> Satellite images are showing the rapid disintegration of a 41km x
> 2.5km ice chunk, a part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf that has been there
> for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years. It is happening, the scientific
> consensus seems to be, because the seas are getting warmer. It's that
> greenhouse thing.
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> So, what to do? Blame China? No, we need to take individual
> responsibility. Wait on the Garnaut report? No, too little too late.
> We must act now ... of course! Let's turn some lights off on Saturday.
> For an hour. That'll fix it. Meanwhile, click on the image below to
> watch a video of what Earth Hour is up against." [end of quote]
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> Anyway, that's about as clever as it gets even from the so-called
> alternative media and the story is much the same in The Australian.
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> Then of course there are the blogs, including some which actually
> provide data and background information to put the collapse of the
> icesheet in some context:
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> "In reality it and all the former shelves that collapsed are small and
> most near the Antarctic peninsula which sticks well out from
> Antarctica into the currents and winds of the South Atlantic and lies
> in a tectonically active region with surface and subsurface active
> volcanic activity. The vast continent has actually cooled since
> 1979...
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> "The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the
> current ice sheet (just 0.1% of the extent last September). Only a
> small portion of it between 1/10th-1/20th of Wilkins has separated so
> far, like an icicle falling off a snow and ice covered house. And this
> winter is coming on quickly. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it
> is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent)
> of last year when it set a new record. The ice extent is already
> approaching the second highest level for extent since the measurements
> began by satellite in 1979 and just a few days into the Southern
> Hemisphere winter and 6 months ahead of the peak. Wilkins like all the
> others that temporarily broke up will refreeze soon. We are very
> likely going to exceed last year's record. Yet the world is left with
> the false impression Antarctica's ice sheet is also starting to
> disappear."
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> Read the complete blog post and check out meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo
> graphs at http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate
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> Warmest Regards
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> Bonzo
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>
> The Fourth Report of the IPCC might just as well decree the
> suppression of all climatology textbooks, and replace them in our
> schools with press communiqués. ... Day after day, the same mantra -
> that 'the Earth is warming up' - is churned out in all its forms. As
> 'the
> ice melts' and 'sea level rises' the Apocalypse looms ever nearer!
> Without realizing it, or perhaps without wishing to, the average
> citizen in bamboozled, lobotomized, and lulled into mindless
> acceptance.
> ... Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the
> position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ...
> Marcel Leroux
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> It should be abundantly clear by now that the AGW hypothesis is
> contradicted by the facts/measurements/observations and should
> therefore be abandoned and be substituted by a hypothesis which
> better matches the facts.
> - Hans Labohm
>
Alarmists are forced to concentrate on part of the West Antarctic that
sticks out into the currents and winds of South Atlantic, plus there may
be tectonic and volcanic activity. Yawn, bring on the next non-scary
scare.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Attributing global climate change to human CO2 production is akin to
trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine
(analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water
vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel,
which would be analogous to total CO2, but on one thread on that nut,
which represents the human contribution." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of
the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor
Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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