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DanG
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Huge Greenland Glacier Disintegrating
| Quote From Source: | A gigantic, 11-square-mile (29-square-kilometer) chunk of the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland broke off between July 10 and July 24.
The collapsed section is comparable in size to half of Manhattan Island... The broken chunk has led scientists to predict a section of Petermann, the Northern Hemisphere's longest-floating glacier, will disappear by 2009.
But the most alarming sign, according to Jason Box of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, is a huge 7-mile (11.3 kilometer) crack, that has appeared farther back on the margin of the glacier.
The groove could create an imminent and even bigger breakup—up to a third of the ice field, he said in a statement.
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http://news.nationalgeograph.../080822-greenland-photo.html
Whether or not this is a sign of 'global warming', under-ground volcanoes or a martian death-ray, this is worrisome news.
As we've talked about before, dumping large amounts of cold, fresh water into the northern atlantic may have some very pronouned affects on the atlantic currents. |
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Indy
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Honestly I'm not really worried about it. The planet has survived such events in the past. In fact the medieval warm was a pretty good time. Besides my attitude is this...
Bring it bitches! :-)
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MattN
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It's not getting warmer. We're at the END of the last great warm period. |
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MountainManMike
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im with u indy. |
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