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This satellite im shows the Arctic sea ice spread on September 21, 2005, when it dropped to the lowest extent yet recorded. The yellow outline indicates where the concentration of ice was as of September 21, 1979.
Photo: AFP
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OK, that's the arctic, not for the Antartic.
Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly
New Study Warns Of Rising Sea Levels
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 3, 2006; Page A01
The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year in a trend that scientists link to global warming, according to a new paper that provides the first evidence that the sheet's total mass is shrinking significantly.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201712.html
9 comments:
CATO:
Before you claim I flipped the world upside down.
Yes I know you said Antartic not Artic.
Where are those glaciers located? In Fred Barne's and Steve Milloy's labs at Exxon headquarters?
CATO:
Don't you find it interesting that we
tend to look for "research" that justifies our respective political polarity?
Honestly, for the skeptic, this kind of science and political brew makes it
really hard to ascertain what is true and what matches one's bias.
Cato:
There you go...adding more misinformation to the debate.
No...meters v. feet. To those of us who were well prepared for the coming meteric system -- back in the early 1970s -- we know the difference. Don't try to dodge my point of misinformation with some petty fact scoop out of the vast information drainage ditch known as Google. At least I can admit that anything you see me post here was made up by me. At least I can trust myself. I used to be a Boy Scout and I still stick with the motto.
CATO:
I don't know what decade you remember people being worried about the next ice age. In the mid 60's I had teachers tell me the ice shelves could melt and
flood N.Y. and the next war would be about oil.
Cato:
You humor is always appreciated here. I am only looking out for the younger generation who might stumble on this site through a keying error involving a MySpace.com address. In the event that they figured out that our coin/cash system works just like the metric system, I wouldn't want them getting confused when the graduate with PhDs and end up being contract workers at McDonalds store in Bombay.
In anycase, lowering emmissions is unlikely to be a bad thing. Kinda like
airbags.
Sorry, I meant lower emmissions ARE unlikely to be a bad thing. Kinda like
airbags.
Man, that was bad. I pick on people for less.
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