cipi604 wrote:Don't worry, is going to snow again, or do you believe that the ice stood there since forever and never-ever did break chunks
Right now the temperature in Antarctica is -61 °F / -52 °C Heavy Blowing Snow
But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
roccman wrote:cipi604 wrote:Don't worry, is going to snow again, or do you believe that the ice stood there since forever and never-ever did break chunks
Right now the temperature in Antarctica is -61 °F / -52 °C Heavy Blowing Snow
But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
If I am wrong ...I look silly.
If you are wrong we all die.
Oh that's right ...we are all gonna die anyway...
Party on dudes!!!
Larger and more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.
cipi604 wrote:roccman wrote:cipi604 wrote:Don't worry, is going to snow again, or do you believe that the ice stood there since forever and never-ever did break chunks
Right now the temperature in Antarctica is -61 °F / -52 °C Heavy Blowing Snow
But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
If I am wrong ...I look silly.
If you are wrong we all die.
Oh that's right ...we are all gonna die anyway...
Party on dudes!!!
Antarctica can't melt. It's much colder there than to the north pole... because it sits at a much higher elevation above sea level.
It will keep on snowing until we all die. Instead be very afraid of peak-oil and overpopulation.
Btw Roccman, I found this in the article :Larger and more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.
... and we didn't die :D
Trust only the numbers not the news headlines!
March 25, 2008—New satellite images reveal what scientists call the "runaway" collapse of an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica as the result of global warming.
The chunk of coastal ice was some 160 square miles (415 square kilometers) in area—about seven times the size of Manhattan.
The shelf's rapid collapse began on February 28 (see image sequence at top right), sending a giant swath of broken ice into the sea (detail at bottom).
"[It's] an event we don't get to see very often," Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said in a press statement.
"The collapse underscores that the [Wilkins Ice Shelf] region has experienced an intense melt season. Regional sea ice has all but vanished, leaving the ice shelf exposed to the action of waves."
cipi604 wrote:Don't worry, is going to snow again, or do you believe that the ice stood there since forever and never-ever did break chunks
Right now the weather in Antarctica is -61 °F / -52 °C Heavy Blowing Snow... pretty hot there
But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
SchroedingersCat wrote:cipi604 wrote:Don't worry, is going to snow again, or do you believe that the ice stood there since forever and never-ever did break chunks
Right now the weather in Antarctica is -61 °F / -52 °C Heavy Blowing Snow... pretty hot there
But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
By the way, genius, Antarctica is a continent. Big place. Lots of temperature variations.
Weather Underground
essex wrote:Misleading Reports About Antarctica
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Icecap Note: Lets put this in perspective. The account may be misinterpreted by some as the ice cap or a significant (vast) portion is collapsing. In reality it and all the former shelves that collapsed are small and most near the Antarctic peninsula which sticks well out from Antarctica into the currents and winds of the South Atlantic and lies in a tectonically active region with surface and subsurface active volcanic activity. The vast continent has actually cooled since 1979.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/antarct ... 2-2004.jpg
The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the current ice sheet (just 0.1% of the extent last September). Only a small portion of it between 1/10th-1/20th of Wilkins has separated so far, like an icicle falling off a snow and ice covered house. And this winter is coming on quickly. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record. The ice extent is already approaching the second highest level for extent since the measurements began by satellite in 1979 and just a few days into the Southern Hemisphere winter and 6 months ahead of the peak. Wilkins like all the others that temporarily broke up will refreeze soon. We are very likely going to exceed last year’s record. Yet the world is left with the false impression Antarctica’s ice sheet is also starting to disappear.
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/current ... th0325.jpg
One Icecap reader points also to a paper (Glasser et al, 2008 http://www.igsoc.org/journal/54/184/j07J086.pdf) identifying some of the other natural processes that can lead to these ice sheet breaks, in this case Larsen B.
cipi604 wrote:Don't worry, is going to snow again, or do you believe that the ice stood there since forever and never-ever did break chunks
Right now the weather in Antarctica is -61 °F / -52 °C Heavy Blowing Snow... pretty hot there
But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
cipi604 wrote:...But what the hack?!... global warming it is! If you say so...
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