Greenland, Antarctic Ice 'in Runaway Melt Mode'

Fox news - AP ^ | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | Staff

[PilotDave]

New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.

British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That is where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Rich Republicans are planning banana plantations for Greenland.

[SunkenCiv]

It's strange how this piece of propaganda keeps popping up a few times a year. There's nothing to it, it isn't true, it's actually a blatant lie. Oh, wait, that's right, it's from the left, of course it's a blatant lie. Thanks BIGLOOK.

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[Old Professer]

One apochryphal tale substituted for another is a technique of debate, not a conclusion of science.

[Berosus]

I thought I heard yesterday that the date for the total melting of Arctic ice had been pushed back, from 2013 to 2041.

[Old Professer]

And in the past two days we’ve been told that billions of tons of new ice and water have been discovered by satellite on the Moon and Mars both; what’s the odds of all this being a coincidence?

Those aren’t your grandfather’s satellites, they are interplanetary space-age giant pumps - the Martians are stealing our life-giving water right from our outstretched tongues.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, only off by 28 years! Get off their backs! ;’) ;’)