Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Massive Ice Shelf Leaves Antarctica

Here and here.

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- An Antarctic ice shelf bigger than Connecticut risks collapse because of global warming after a retreat that began on Feb. 28, the British Antarctic Survey said.

The Wilkins ice shelf, which lost 1,000 square kilometers (390 square miles) of ice, or about 6 percent of its surface, in 1998, calved another 570 square kilometers since February, the survey group said in an e-mailed statement. Now, there's little to stop the loss of another several thousand square kilometers.


Drudge will probably report that Iran did it.

Video here.

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2 comments:

LT said...

It does seem hopeless. Maybe only catastrophe can bring necessary attitude changes.

Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero) said...

Deny. Deny. Deny.

Drudge will probably report that Iran did it.

Ha!