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Richard A. Lovett
for National Geographic News December 29, 2006 A huge Canadian ice shelf 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the North Pole has disintegrated, leaving a large floating island of ice stranded 30 miles (48 kilometers) offshore, scientists reported yesterday. The entire 25.5-square-mile (66-square-kilometer) Ayles Ice Shelf broke free from the northern coast of Ellesmere Island on August 13, 2005 The event registered as a small earthquake on instruments stationed 150 miles (250 kilometers) away, Warwick Vincent of Quebec's Laval University told the CanWest News Service. "It's like a cruise missile came down and hit the ice shelf," Vincent said. "It no longer exists." The breakup was spotted on satellite photos shortly after it occurred, but scientists have held back until now to make an announcement. "We've spent the last year reconstructing exactly what happened," said Luke Copland, a geographer with the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. Sixteen months of study led Copland and colleagues to the conclusion that several factors were at work, mostly related to global warming. Long-Term Trend Ice shelves are floating tongues of glaciers that fill bays in the Arctic and Antarctic. The shelves are attached to land and are much thicker than pack ice-freely floating masses of sea ice. The Ayles ice shelf was believed to be 3,000 to 4,500 years old. Before the breakup the Canadian Arctic had six ice shelves. "Now there are five," Copland said. In the past hundred years, he added, Canada's ice shelves have shrunk by 90 percent. |
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"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com... Richard A. Lovett for National Geographic News December 29, 2006 A huge Canadian ice shelf 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the North Pole has disintegrated, leaving a large floating island of ice stranded 30 miles (48 kilometers) offshore, scientists reported yesterday. The entire 25.5-square-mile (66-square-kilometer) Ayles Ice Shelf broke free from the northern coast of Ellesmere Island on August 13, 2005 The event registered as a small earthquake on instruments stationed 150 miles (250 kilometers) away, Warwick Vincent of Quebec's Laval University told the CanWest News Service. "It's like a cruise missile came down and hit the ice shelf," Vincent said. "It no longer exists." The breakup was spotted on satellite photos shortly after it occurred, but scientists have held back until now to make an announcement. "We've spent the last year reconstructing exactly what happened," said Luke Copland, a geographer with the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. Sixteen months of study led Copland and colleagues to the conclusion that several factors were at work, mostly related to global warming. Long-Term Trend Ice shelves are floating tongues of glaciers that fill bays in the Arctic and Antarctic. The shelves are attached to land and are much thicker than pack ice-freely floating masses of sea ice. The Ayles ice shelf was believed to be 3,000 to 4,500 years old. Before the breakup the Canadian Arctic had six ice shelves. "Now there are five," Copland said. In the past hundred years, he added, Canada's ice shelves have shrunk by 90 percent. Now that the Bush administration has agreed to put polar bears on the threatened species list, there's hope that this sort of thing may be lessened in the future. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." (T. Roosevelt, 1918) -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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"Joe" wrote Sixteen months of study led Copland and colleagues to the conclusion that several factors were at work, mostly related to global warming. "Now there are five," Copland said. In the past hundred years, he added, Canada's ice shelves have shrunk by 90 percent. Duh! Now you done it, Joe. Every nut job environmentalist extremist is gonna jump on the global warming band wagon. But, guess what happened one hundred years ago. It was towards the end of the "little ice age" which lasted several hundred years. This little ice age allowed abnormal ice to build up. Now that the little ice age has ended it's totally normal for the ice to get back to normal. But the global warming people will say see I told you so. Global warming. The poles are melting. That's bunk. They're using the little ice age as the norm and it wasn't. It was an ice age where it was colder and ice built up. Stupid people will buy into their crap, though. Al Gore is their hero. Cheers, Ellen |
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That was 17 months ago. Why put it in the news now?
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"Bart" wrote That was 17 months ago. Why put it in the news now? Freaking leftist environmental herky jerkies is who. They gotta do something to keep the moron masses believing in people-caused global warming. How else are they gonna brainwash people into paying some kind of big tax to combat it?? Cheers, Ellen |
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"Bart" wrote in message
ups.com... That was 17 months ago. Why put it in the news now? You mean it's not worth repeating? Happy New Year Bart! -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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