[devane617]

I bet it is cold in the valley.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

just wait 10 years..manbearpig says all that ice will be melted and tourists will then pay to scale the things..

[cripplecreek]

Gotta love those headline writers. Yeah they were found......50 years ago. On the other hand mapping them is kinda cool.

Also I wonder if maybe they weren’t ground down because the ice formed on top of and around them so there wasn’t much motion to grind them down.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to The Top of the World !

[NonLinear]

"The surprising thing was that not only is this mountain range the size of the Alps, but it looks quite similar to the (European) Alps, with high peaks and valleys," ....

Other than being buried under a half mile of ice, of course. You don't find that so much in the European Alps.

[smokingfrog]

So do they have an explanation for how ice could have formed so quickly? No. They don't.
Do they have an explanation for how the Antarctic mountains could be 500 million years old, while the Alps are only 50 to 60 million years old? No. They don't.

Why should I believe their other assumptions?

[Matchett-PI]

“The U.N. panel on climate change says that greenhouse gases, mainly emitted by burning fossil fuels, will bring more heatwaves, floods and droughts, and raise sea levels.”

They better get their stories straight. They’re all becoming a laughing stock.

Feb 24, 2009
Scroll down in the left column to:

Al Gore Retracts on Warming Disaster Claims made before AAAS audience
[...]
Now that Gore has admitted that including the slide based on CRED data was a mistake, it raises a more fundamental question: How could it be that Al Gore presented obviously misleading information before a large audience of the world’s best scientists, which was then amplified in a press release by AAAS, and none of these scientists spoke up? Read more here. http://www.icecap.us/

In other news:

“Oops! Houston - we have a problem”

NASA global warming (CO2 monitoring) satellite crashes on take-off.
http://jackmyers.daylife.com/article/08PMbV53Ceary?q=NASA

Awwwwwwww.... 10 years in the planning, and “poof”!

:)

[devane617]

I’m waiting on a Dolly pic....Come on guys, I know I am not ths only one that sees possibilities with the title.

[LRS]

Ferraccioli said the maps were "the first page of a new book" of understanding how ice sheets behave, which in turn could help predict how the ice will react to global warming.

OK. I'll predict that the ice sheets won't form a Riverdance troupe. Now where's my grant?

[NormsRevenge]

That’s a heckuva big chunk of ice..

great graphics of area.

Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province Project (AGAP)
Antarctic Research: Peering Through The Ice
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/gambit/index.htm

[ETL]

Movie: "The Land That Time Forgot"

"Negotiating an underwater tunnel [beneath the ice] to gain the island's interior, those aboard U-33 are amazed to discover a tropical prehistoric world kept warm by volcanic forces. Here dinosaurs that should be long extinct live and roam, as do a curious race of humanoid savages that appear to exhibit all the various phases of Man's evolutionary development. To survive long enough to repair and replenish the U-boat, wartime enemies must put aside their differences and cooperate with one another. But not everyone is playing from the Kumbaya songbook... The Land That Time Forgot is a thoroughly old fashioned sci-fi/fantasy adventure of the type they weren't really making anymore even in 1975. A lot of this has to do with the script sticking to Burroughs' Victorian style. (His Caprona tales were first published in 1918; as late as World War II he'd still be cranking out novels in the writing style of the 19th Century.) The film's a throwback to the likes of the original King Kong and potboilers such as Unknown Island (1948) and The Land Unknown (1957), only in color."
http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/land_time_forgot.htm

[BenLurkin]

Can’t be. The ice down there is all melted and stuff.

[an amused spectator]

"The surprising thing was that not only is this mountain range the size of the Alps, but it looks quite similar to the (European) Alps, with high peaks and valleys," said Fausto Ferraccioli, a geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey who took part in the research.

The "Chariots Of The Gods" aliens were keeping a spare Alps on ice, because they knew that Man would destroy the original Alps with Global Warming.

Yep, them dang aliens think of EVERTHIN.

[BBell]

ping

[SunkenCiv]

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[fanfan]

Jagged mountains the size of the Alps have been found entombed in Antarctica's ice, giving new clues about the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts, scientists said on Tuesday.

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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if the mass of Antarctica is more land than ice, doesn't that mean the mass of ice is less than previously thought?

the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts,

They announce the discovery of less ice, and use that discovery to panic people about melting ice?

Grr. (not you.)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Does it match the Piri Reis map?

[Kickass Conservative]

Did they find that Pyramid from the Alien vs Predator movie?