On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:40 PM, David P. Henderson wrote: > On 25 Feb 2009, at 09:55, Kevin Callahan wrote: > >> >> http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/25-3 >> >> Scientists Find Bigger than Expected Polar Ice Melt >> GENEVA - Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting >> faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea >> levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey >> showed Wednesday. >> >> >> >> The International Polar Year survey found that warming in the >> Antarctic is "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic >> sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland's ice cover is >> accelerating. > > > Now aren't we all glad that we've got all that extra CO_2 in the > atmosphere keeping things warm? Since without it we'd probably be > looking at very serious cooling and potential ice age from all the > artic ice melt diluting the salinity of the N Atlantic and > diminishing the northward reach of the Gulf Stream. > > Dave > --
Technically, from a geological perspective, we are in an ice age. We are in the interglacial period, but we still have ice caps.. Not saying that we can't screw up the short term climate enough to eliminate a bunch of us, just being a pendant.. OTOH, They announced that, due to sensor drift, they had underestimated the extent of the Arctic ice sheet by about the size of california.. <http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/]Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis> =c= _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
