Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic

[no waiii]

Still dont make me belive in globe warming lol


An ice bridge linking a shelf of ice the size of Jamaica to an island in Antarctica has snapped.

Scientists suggest the collapse could mean that the Wilkins Ice Shelf is on the brink of breaking away, and that it provides evidence of global warming.

The shelf has been retreating since the 1990s, but scientists say this is the first time it has lost one of the connections that keeps it in place.

It broke off at the thinnest point of the 40-km (25-mile) strip of ice.

A European Space Agency satellite picture shows newly created icebergs floating in the sea on the western side of the Antarctic peninsula, which juts up from the continent towards South America's southern tip.

"It's amazing how the ice has ruptured," David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.


"Two days ago it was intact. We've waited a long time to see this."

Professor Vaughan stood on the ice bridge in January, putting in place a GPS tracker to monitor movement.

While the break-up will have no impact on sea level, it heightens concerns over the impact of climate change on this part of Antarctica.

They say the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced unprecedented warming over the last 50 years.

Several ice shelves have retreated in the past 30 years - six of them collapsing completely.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Nature, nature, nature is all I can say.

[mangle]

Still dont make me belive in globe warming lol



http://apolloalliance.org/digest/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/manns-hockey-stick.gif

Not saying it's human causes, but the globe is definately warming.

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://apolloalliance.org/digest/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/manns-hockey-stick.gif

Not saying it's human causes, but the globe is definately warming.

I have heard with my own ears from a government minister that temperatures over the last 100 years have not changed - and that was from a government minister on newsnight who supported global warming.

[no waiii]

all this happened over millions of years ago, i doubt cave men were driving around in fule gusslers, its nature and the sonner those hippy's see this the sooner they stop protesting everywere

[Oleh]

i highly agree, also when they say the water level will rise, they dont see that facts, ice takes up more volume than water, which concludes the fact, it will go down :)

[-:Undertaker:-]

It is nice to see people thinking for themselves now on this forum, I remember back before my 'break' it was normally only me, Jordy & GommeInc who doubted global warming, finally this myth is being put to rest.

[Laggings]

Omg that's bad :O!

[Slowpoke]

Still, we do need to cut down on the amount of fossil fuels we use since it's going to run out soon and the only way to get power when it does will be through the new green methods.

[Laggings]

Still, we do need to cut down on the amount of fossil fuels we use since it's going to run out soon and the only way to get power when it does will be through the new green methods.
Yeah, if we run out the world will be screwed for a short time :(

[-:Undertaker:-]

Still, we do need to cut down on the amount of fossil fuels we use since it's going to run out soon and the only way to get power when it does will be through the new green methods.

We only use just below 1/2 of each oil well we discover, there are many many more oil wells out there waiting to be discovered and the ones we have already 'used' still have most of their oil in them, the only reason why we haven't used all of it is because its more economical at the moment to leave that well and use the top of another well.

Green methods will never work, they are not economical and need too much maintenance and replacing. Wind farms have a life of about 15 - 20 years and to replace just one nuclear power plant in terms of power you'd need thousands and thousands of wind turbines. Considering nuclear is only a small part of our energy policy at the moment, your looking at hundreds of thousands, if not millions of turbines needed, and remember they would need replacing every 20 years - a truly impossible and uneconomic task.

Nuclear will be the energy we turn to, it is very reliable and is getting cheaper to produce. No longer will we have to rely on Iran and Russia for our oil/gas which they could stop the flow of anytime they wish. France, United Kingdom and United States + many others are turning back to the nuclear solution.

[Agnostic Bear]

Attention everyone who believes in global warming:

We're still in an ice-age.

[no waiii]

Attention everyone who believes in global warming:

We're still in an ice-age.

I though that we are overdew one by about 10,000 years lol?

[Virgin Mary]

Who cares it's not going to affect us in our lifetimes.

[no waiii]

Who cares it's not going to affect us in our lifetimes.

Think of the children1!11!!1!!one1!1!!!!!1

[-:Undertaker:-]

I though that we are overdew one by about 10,000 years lol?

No, we're actually in one now as Jewish Bear says, the poles were in their 'normal' state forests, that is why there are large areas of resource under the ice from the rotting matter that has been compressed into oil and so on.

[no waiii]

No, we're actually in one now as Jewish Bear says, the poles were in their 'normal' state forests, that is why there are large areas of resource under the ice from the rotting matter that has been compressed into oil and so on.

everytime i google it, it just says were comming out of a little one, is that whats you's mean?

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everytime i google it, it just says were comming out of a little one, is that whats you's mean?

I have heard many things about it to be honest, all I know is that from the last ice age we are still recovering and the poles should melt according to nature.

[no waiii]

ohh, i tought we are entering a new one :P but were comming out of ones by the looks of the things of reader from google