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Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg jumps the shark again – gets called out by NYT (Antarctic "collapse")
Watts Up with That ^ | May 12, 2014 | By Anthony Watts

Posted on 05/13/2014 2:36:08 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

The wailing today is that the collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet has already begun. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; artarctica; climatechange; globalwarming; thwaitesglacier
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Story at link uses mixed media so it is hard to transfer text. Going to the link is worth the trouble. Watts documents how melting glaciers in the Antarctic, a geologic event first reported in 1909, are being hyped to coincide with Obama's global warming scare tactics.
1 posted on 05/13/2014 2:36:08 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
the collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet has already begun

Good. The damage is done. Now the carbon alarmists can shut up and sit down.

2 posted on 05/13/2014 2:38:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Since I’ve been banned from Comment is Free at The Guardian, I will only comment that I have no comment.


3 posted on 05/13/2014 2:42:10 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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4 posted on 05/13/2014 2:42:46 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
They are "very concerned" about ice melting in western Antarctica. Below is a map of Antarctic volcanoes. Notice anything about it?


5 posted on 05/13/2014 2:47:12 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Which part is considered west?


6 posted on 05/13/2014 2:53:39 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: PapaBear3625

That map, sir, says it all.

Mega kudos.

Libs are such idiots...but then again, but of course.


7 posted on 05/13/2014 3:09:00 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The vast majority of Antarctic “glacier” is actually an ice pack covering open ocean.

Melting of ocean ice does not cause a proportional increase in the level of the oceans even if all of the ice melted completely in pretty much the same way the level of your Coke in a glass does not increase when the ice floating in the glass melts

A very substantial percentage of the Antarctic ice pack could melt with minimal change in ocean level


8 posted on 05/13/2014 3:09:58 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: PapaBear3625
The graphic says it all. From time to time the warmists point to this region as an area where Antarctic ice is melting. Then some scientist will chime in reminding them of this chain of volcanoes.
9 posted on 05/13/2014 3:16:06 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Kirkwood

I don’t know for sure, but I imagine if you start at the Greenwich Meridian and start walking counterclockwise around the pole, you’ll be in Western Antarctica for a good bit.


10 posted on 05/13/2014 3:52:01 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down...and to the left.)
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To: ExGeeEye

That sounds right.


11 posted on 05/13/2014 4:08:44 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: PapaBear3625
They are "very concerned" about ice melting in western Antarctica. Below is a map of Antarctic volcanoes. Notice anything about it?

Hate to seem like a smartass, but are you aware that not one person in 10,000 can tell you when viewing your map, which way is "north." or why?

At the South pole, every direction viewed is "north..."

12 posted on 05/13/2014 4:23:28 PM PDT by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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To: publius911

My guess is “western Antarctica” is the part of Antarctica in the western hemisphere, and I can only assume that the given map is aligned with the western hemisphere on the west side, but unless you know the continental features that lie on the western side (I think the large peninsula does) you would need cartographic lines and labels to know for sure.


13 posted on 05/13/2014 5:40:49 PM PDT by unseelie
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Mt. Siple — a reminder of perhaps the greatest Eagle Scout and polar scientist of the 20th century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Siple

Helped build Little America, invented wind chill factor, and helped save the U.S. Army in Korea. I wonder what he’d think of all of this.


14 posted on 05/13/2014 6:15:20 PM PDT by giant sable
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To: publius911
By convention West Antarctica is the part of Antarctica which is in the western hemisphere, i.e. the half of the world where the Americas are.
15 posted on 05/13/2014 6:31:01 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: ExGeeEye; Kirkwood; unseelie

See post 15. West Antarctica is the part of Antarctica which is in the western hemisphere, i.e. the half of the world where the Americas are.


16 posted on 05/13/2014 6:34:00 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Kirkwood
Which part is considered west?

Good point!

It's ALL north!!!!

Where on Earth, would a person be, if they walked 1 mile north; turned right and walked 1 mile east, and then turned right again and walked 1 mile south; ending up exactly where they started??

17 posted on 05/14/2014 1:01:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ExGeeEye

We refer to the Orient as the Far East.

Could it not also be called the Far West?


18 posted on 05/14/2014 1:03:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ExGeeEye
I don’t know for sure, but I imagine if you start at the Greenwich Meridian and start walking counterclockwise around the pole, you’ll be in Western Antarctica for a good bit.

Here??



19 posted on 05/14/2014 1:10:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
You might want to follow that south until you can just about see this:

After that, yeah, pretty much...

20 posted on 05/14/2014 2:47:14 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down...and to the left.)
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