Climate Change: An ice shelf in Antarctica begins to break apart, and the
global warming hysterics immediately blame human activities for the crackup. Is
it possible that there is some other cause?
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a 25-mile bridge that once covered about 6,000 square miles, has split off from the Antarctic coast. Floating untethered, the Connecticut-size ledge — a mere 0.39% of all Antarctic ice — could eventually melt as it drifts northward toward warmer waters.Naturally, activists both in and out of the scientific community, the media and political figures on the left blame human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide for warming the Earth, particularly the Antarctic peninsula, where temperatures have increased 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years.
Before we panic, there are a few things we should remember that will help us to put this less-than-catastrophic event in perspective.
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Dan Lewis said... I've found additional proof of global warming. More than 90% of the snow in my yard has melted in the last 30 days. My apologies to Al Gore...how could I have been so blind????
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I hope my sarcasm wasn't lost in the digital conversion. I'm not overly convinced of 'the human factor' in globabl warming, er climate change, now that warming trends don't appear to be holding up to scrutiny.
ReplyDeleteBased on Anarctica, I'm thinking things can be warming up. But, then, Anarctica is ending it's summer, now, and we may be getting ready to see the ice-shelf (shelves) rebound, as the southern hemisphere winter sets in.
Also, my recollection from my "Rocks for Jocks" class in college (Geology 101) was that good 'ol Terra was coming out of it's most recent ice-age, and has been for the last 6-10 thousand years. (I'm fuzzy on this one...it's been a few years.)
If so, then I'd expect the 1000-year running average to show a shrinking trend. And, frankly, I wouldn't look anything shorter than a 100-year running trend.
TTFN!
~dhl