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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One Antarctic ice shelf has quickly vanished, another is disappearing and glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought due to climate change, U.S. and British government researchers reported on Friday.
They said the Wordie Ice Shelf, which had been disintegrating since the 1960s, is gone and the northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf no longer exists. More than 3,200 square miles (8,300 square km) have broken off from the Larsen shelf since 1986.
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In another report published in the journal Geophysical Letters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that ice is melting much more rapidly than expected in the Arctic as well, based on new computer analyses and recent ice measurements.
The U.N. Climate Panel projects that world atmospheric temperature will rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius because of emissions of greenhouse gases that could bring floods, droughts, heat waves and more powerful storms.
Seems like we have a few American and British research scientists smart enough to realize where there funding comes from; big hint alert! Ministry of Environments.
Just like any other career, if you want to keep your paycheck, it's always better to produce reports your boss wants to hear. Damn the statistics.
Scientists will always follow the path of funding wherever it leads them.
Seems like we have a few American and British research scientists smart enough to realize where there funding comes from; big hint alert! Ministry of Environments.
Just like any other career, if you want to keep your paycheck, it's always better to produce reports your boss wants to hear. Damn the statistics.
Scientists will always follow the path of funding wherever it leads them.
Do you think these ice shelves arent really melting?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets paid no matter what...I dont know if their funding was cut back under the Bush Admin, but they've been reporting the same way all along.
Meanwhile, yet another wave of spring blizzards and cold snaps pound the country. But I did read about the absence of sunspots being a likely cause so there's no reason to blame man's activity one way or the other.
It's not suprising! As the largest and most depleted part of the ozone layer, lies right over Antartica.
You are correct sir. But as this thread proves, the global warming deniers, who turn science into politics and reality into fantasy, are not going to be persuaded with facts.
What is really baffling is the same naysayers who don't grasp science or are unable to comphrehend science believe in Voodoo and other cult like religions.
I wonder what China and India are going to do about it.
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