Antarctica summer ice melt at it highest level in 1.000 years

Tuesday, April 16th 2013 - 03:30 UTC

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The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves. Read full article

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Fido Dido
and they just can't give up with their global warming nonsense. shows how desperate they get. Sorry, people are awaking, begin to understand it's a hoax and aren't interested in paying “carbon taxes”.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Britworker
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It would be nice to think you are right, but I truly believe you are wrong. Go on google earth and look at the ice melting away from the coast of Greenland, pushing the gulf stream further south. Also pictures of glaciers from 50 years ago and what they look like now.
Once the sea ice is gone in antartica, the shelf is just going to fall into the sea, raising levels massively.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Frank
@2 'Once the sea ice is gone in antartica, the shelf is just going to fall into the sea, raising levels massively.' .... I can understand why a dutchman would be in denial..
@1 I thought the word these days was 'climate change'... not 'global warming'.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Anglotino
Humans don't have the ability to understand and predict such massively complex systems as planetary weather.

An increase in melt does not mean a decrease in ice. Sea ice in Amtartica is INCREASING not decreasing.

http://en.mercopress.com/2013/04/04/expanding-antarctic-sea-ice-triggers-different-scientific-explanations

An inflated sense of self-importance leads humans to put a short temporal boundary around systems. The planet is much more than our single species.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Condorito
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“I can understand why a dutchman would be in denial..”
LOL
Apr 16th, 2013 - 03:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
@1 I thought the word these days was 'climate change'... not 'global warming'

Wrong. Climate Change ALWAYS existed. Meanwhile Al Gore and his goons are flying around the world, in their private jet, lecture how great it is to pay MORE “carbon taxes” to his banksters friends (of course he ownes shares of the same banks and oil companies). You understand that? that's what it's all about, BIG BUSINESS, not saving mama earth.
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Conqueror
@1,6 Probably due to all the illegal argie military equipment.
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Frank
@6 Clog Wog... Ed Zackery... In australia they dropped 'global warming' in favour of 'climate change' cos no one can argue with the latter.... for once we agree... time for you to go and stick your finger in a dyke methinks....
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