Fox News: Warning to Ships! Massive 12 mile Iceberg Headed for Australia! - dec 2009

[MrObama]

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[Warpy]

1. Good lord. that thing has been news for 2 weeks

Pox is asleep at the wheel again, guess they're out of dead blondes and living Republican book signing bimbos.

[av8rdave]

2. I'm sure they want to imply that this is some kind of proof that global warming isn't real

[Warpy]

4. Pretty funny, since it proves the opposite

When the ice sheets start falling into the ocean in that kind of quantity, it means the ice sheets are in big trouble.

[av8rdave]

6. Anyone with any intelligence would know that, but we're talking about Fox News here

[Andronex]

10. This is about the antarctic not the arctic...

Were the ice sheet is generally expanding not retreating

Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away

Ice expanding in much of Antarctica Eastern coast getting colder Western section remains a concern

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.

The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.

Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth's ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water, The Australian reports. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilisation of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.

However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.

East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".

more... http://www.news.com.au/antarctic-ice-is-growing-not-melting-away/story-0-1225700043191

[audas]

15. SO what -

What a stupid thing to post - this is a temporary aberration due to the depletion of the ozone layer (again by humans using chloro fluro carbons) -
Further the western shelves are the primary barrier to seepage from sea water under into the Antartic basin which would destabilize the entire continent.

There are numerous studies pointing to this already happening - which means the moulons affecting the Actic with MASSIVE positive feedback loops are now acting on the Antartic,
remember the collapse of the Arctic and Western Antartic is happening decades ahead of predicitons.

Further the repair of the ozone will be complete in less than 50 years - with Antartic to feel the FULL brunt of this (the hole is above the very place not warming - obviously).

So on the whole your post wreaks of global warming denial - repulsive. When the reality is that the continent is breaking up - when even the WORST predicitions thought nothing would happen for centuries.....

Give it a couple of years mate - and I can assure you the article you have posted will look like nothing more than wishful thinking.

[TheEuclideanOne]

16. I noticed that Andronex got very quiet

I love it when somebody posts something full of "facts", followed by somebody else basically saying "you are full of shit" and explaining why. I like to look for a follow up. In cases like this, where there is no counter argument, but other posts added at a later date/time, I can only conclude that those "facts" are simply propaganda based on a position that can not be supported.

[av8rdave]

20. I'm sure there are few people here that would be surprised.

What is happening in Antarctica, as I understand it, follows the climate change model pretty accurately.

[Zodiak]

19. I have colleagues who go to Palmer Station, Antarctica every year for research

This is Western Antarctica, on the penninsula, and the glacier there is receding.

[saltpoint]

3. Maybe they could redirect it toward Europe. Getting ice in Europe is

invariably problematic.

[robo50]

5. I can't watch Fox News, no way, but I bet they blame Obama for

this as well, right, it's OBAMA's fault that the south seas are not as safe as they were under BUSH!!!!!!

I knew it I knew it!

:sarcasm:

[TheEuclideanOne]

17. Bush would have invaded the Antartic

He would be calling it the Arctic of Evil too. :)

[Bitwit1234]

7. Could they would they should they set up a cruise

for Fox'ers only and maybe the ice berg would pursue the hell out of them.

[newmac]

8. No followup?

I guess a 12 mile wide iceberg just "appeared" for no reason at all

[Andronex]

11. These huge icebergs are usually...

a sign of an expanding ice sheet as it is the case in most of the south pole. Why does the media totally ignores the colder temperatures in the Antarctic and prefer to focus on the arctic instead, good question.

[winyanstaz]

14. they also chose to ignore the cooling down of the last 7 years as well.

[Andronex]

18. Antartic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era.

Where are the headlines? Where are the press releases? Where is all the attention?

The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history.

Such was the finding reported last week by Marco Tedesco and Andrew Monaghan in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:

A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008–2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980–2009. Strong positive phases of both the El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM) were recorded during the months leading up to and including the 2008–2009 melt season

Figure 1. Standardized values of the Antarctic snow melt index (October-January) from 1980-2009 (adapted from Tedesco and Monaghan, 2009).

The silence surrounding this publication was deafening.

It would seem that with oft-stoked fears of a disastrous sea level rise coming this century any news that perhaps some signs may not be pointing to its imminent arrival would be greeted by a huge sigh of relief from all inhabitants of earth (not only the low-lying ones, but also the high-living ones, respectively under threat from rising seas or rising energy costs).

But not a peep.

more... <http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2009/10/06/antarctic-ice-melt-at-lowest-levels-in-satellite-era/>

[BREMPRO]

9. of course all the RW faux newscasters could come up with is the lame

commentary that it "would make for one huge cocktail" instead of talking about the more important issue of global warming that caused it to break off in the first place.

[FarLeftFist]

12. Hmmm, it's been travelling for the last decade....

Which has been the hottest decade since climate science began.

[winyanstaz]

13. well good..it aught to cool down the place.