Due to climate change?
Posted on 02/22/2010 9:49:20 AM PST by halo66
Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.
Research by the U.S. Geological Survey is the first to document that every ice front in the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula has been retreating overall from 1947 to 2009, with the most dramatic changes occurring since 1990. The USGS previously documented that the majority of ice fronts on the entire Peninsula have also retreated during the late 20th century and into the early 21st century.
Need photographic proof, USGS.
I was just thinking of that pic when I read the headline! LMAO!
LOL!
Due to climate change?
This is the same “ice shelf” that photos show THICKENING in ice?
It’s the fault of all those high speed black jet ski boats the anti-whaling environmentalists have been speeding around the benign Japanese research ships.
Yeah...I can’t keep track anymore. This is such B.S.!
I thought they had hybrid boats???? /s
...AND IN OTHER NEWS:
Rosie O’Donnell isn’t top heavy.
They need to give it up. They have become a joke.
Just saw a thread this morning here about the fraud of sea rising claims.
Not sure I see the emergency. If global warming ended only ten years ago, it seems logical to me that ice shelves would take a few more years to grow back. I mean don’t these things take like a thousand years to form in the first place? Or more?
That’s even worse. Now they’re messing with the magnetic fields used by the sharks to detect natural prey. First they cause the ice to melt, now they’re messing with sharks causing them to starve. The environmentalists are such bastards! ;^)
http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf
The first half page is his bona fides. Then it gets real interesting!
Yep, just like ice on a lake. The water takes a while to cool. We have to have a considerable period of time before the little lake I live on freezes over.
Incidentally, its been freezing over about two weeks to a month early for the last couple of years.
OK, I was tired & you said you’d spell me.
So I go take a nap, come back and you tell me the glaciers are gone!
Did you see which way they went?
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