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Antarctic iceshelf 'hanging by a thread'

Read more: http://environment.newscien... According to glaciologists, a thin strip of ice 6 kilometers wide is is all that is holding back the collapse of a large ice shelf.  
 
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AstralDragoon (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Maybe it's just me, but I'm not worried that the whole world is going to turn over and burn down because of global warming. If people like Al Gore want to make nature their God, then I suppose that's their business, but I think he and others use exaggeration and lies to try to rope other people in by inciting paranoia.
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WOW.

To listen to the news, I would have thought were would be alot less ice.

Its great to see so much ice still up there!!

Thanks for the vid!!!
2008republican2012 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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With all of this global warming, I wonder where all of the sunbathers and beach goers are at in this video. Hmmmmmmm, must be to hot down there for them. sarcasm
magnusea (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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New Scientis... sorry, Nude Insanity writes "I would be very surprised if it survives more than a couple more melt seasons," says Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado".

Scam-bos, a good name on the scientist, and it will take West Antarctic ice as much as several thousands of years to collapse, due to a Nature study reported in NY Times:

tinyurl (DOT) com/cc7gfs

Also it wont start to collapse before the ocean gets several degrees C warmer.
magnusea (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Btw, I think there should be a Haag court on fraud and "Crime against science" because of the deceit which takes place right now!
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Ghosttornadoman (2 months ago) Show Hide
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at 0:14 it looks like the ice is pefectly sqaure
shrivak (1 month ago) Show Hide
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As if someone had carved it- like- that.

Now don't panic anyone, but I think it because of...

ALIENS!!!
sydneydoc (5 months ago) Show Hide
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Look at the PHOTOs of the Skate on 17 March 1959.

NO ICE !!!

Are you blind or can't you read dates ?
Bernadotte01 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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I read the whole story.
It referenced an extra 100,000 square kilometres of ice added to Antarctica for each of the past 3 decades, and it presented a faith-based ozone hole hypothesis to account for that fact.

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