Re: Smoke one for the Wilkins Ice Shelf

"Paul M. Cook" <pmcook@xxxxxxx> wrote:


"Marc Schneiderman" <garbaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:53:26 GMT, Miss Elaine Eos
<Misc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn13530-antarctic-iceshelf-h
anging-by-a-thread.html>

They sky is falling.

Er, the sea is rising.


Apparently this happened in the 1980s as well. I don't decry global
warming...just about how much we're truly contributing towards it.
CigarBaron

Well consider that the ice in question, 250 square miles in area and 1 mile
thick, is estimated to be more than a million years old and it is just now
melting, that says a lot about what has been happening in the last 30 years.

True

That would be an unprecedented even. Nowhere in the geologic history has
such instability been recorded in as little as 30 years, it usually has been
in the order of tens of thousands of years.

True-ish. Usually, but not always. Rapid climate change is not
unprecedented.


Paul

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