William S. Lear wrote:
> Nothing like a little exaggeration to help one's argument, is there?
Oh, yeah? Try this for size, from today's London Times (note the final
optimistic sentence). As for Doug Henwood's false optimism, since you share the
same disease (myopia) to an even greater degree, you naturally don't even notice
it: besides, Doug is subtle.
Mark
Antarctic unleashes a titanic
iceberg
BY NICK NUTTALL, ENVIRONMENT
CORRESPONDENT
AN ICEBERG 25 miles long and three miles
wide is floating in the Southern Ocean as an
Antarctic ice shelf falls apart. The break-up was
predicted by scientists at the British Antarctic
Survey two months ago, but the speed of the
change has taken experts by surprise. Some
blame global warming.
The climate of the Antarctic peninsula has
become 2.5C warmer since the 1940s, causing
the ice shelves to start melting. In February, the
British team predicted that the Larsen B shelf,
measuring 7,500 square miles, was nearing its
stability limit and could begin to break up.
Photographs taken from a polar-orbiting satellite
operated by the US National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration have now
confirmed that a large portion of the shelf has
vanished. A spokeswoman for the British
Antarctic Survey, which based its predictions on
computer models, said: "The Antarctic peninsula
is experiencing a regional warming, but that's not
happening in the rest of the continent, and
no-one understands why.
"It doesn't mean that we are immediately going
to see sea levels rise. The world is not in any
danger.
