Comments on: Giant Ice Shelf Breaks Off In Arctic

Ice Chunk Spanning 7 Square Miles Is Largest Piece To Break Off Since 2005

[erasmus81]

"IMO there are more than 4 BILLION people in this thin atmosphere and with all of the ways we discharge into the atmosphere, we must be affecting the climate."
Posted by Terrapin78 at 01:06 PM : Jul 30, 2008

That''s right. How could we not be?

[terrapin78]

IMO there are more than 4 BILLION people in this thin atmosphere and with all of the ways we discharge into the atmosphere, we must be affecting the climate.

[erasmus81]

NORMAL is a GRADUAL warming. This AIN''T gradual.

[louiville2]

Oh yeah it''s shrinking oh my god we will all die! See http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=07&fd=28&fy=2007&sm=07&sd=28&sy=2008

And you will see that the ice is actually growing and is much larger this year then last at the same time. This scare must be your first time with a sky is falling scam.

[ibzjem]

It killz me people are accusing Gore of making money over this. All the while we guzzle oil like it was Pepsi. Who do you think is making more money off the environmnet?

[platteman]

Yikees Batman, Al Gore will come to the rescue along with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and all the other tree huggers who want 10-12 dollar a gallon gas and they will all buy carbon offsets since they don''t know how to conserve. It is only water a bit salty.

[eddynewhope]

Lalalalala - Global warming is a myth! Drill, drill, drill! Now excuse me while I stuff my head back into the sand.

[downsteamjim]

According to the article, you get the feeling that global warming began [a] early 1900s [b] 1930s [c] 2000s. Other good numbers are the 1850s, 10,000+ bp.

[stn_sage]

al gore already had his share..and every now and then when that coffer goes low or that notariety goes down..they ''''milk'''' the environment again..

Posted by libsluv2spit at 11:51 AM : Jul 30, 2008
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Well, whatever!

1. I don''t care what Gore has to say about the environment! I consider him suspect.

2. Gore isn''t the only one making money off the environment---abusively, as you insinuate---the oil companies have been doing it for decades!

3. People who are now suggesting that those who are sounding the alarm on the environment are wrong---will---in a few short years, be talking out the other side of their faces!

4. MY study and research suggests to ME that there is a definite problem! You have to be blind not to see it!

[talkingham]

And to continue for the ultra frozen brain idots who just don''t get it. Sure the climate has been warming for more than 15,000 years but the rate of warming has now reached record levels. Do you understand the term? Record levels of change in the last 15 years.
Record levels of change in the last 15 years.
Record levels of change in the last 15 years.
Stupid.

[talkingham]

I doubt the huge Russian ice breakers as well as our own have done anything to but increase the rate of the breakup of these shelves. I''ve never heard one scientist mention this possibility. But anyone with a speck of sense knows that broken ice melts much faster than solid ice just due to the increase surface area exposed.

But for the idiot who claims discussions of climate change are about the rich stealing for the poor we need to freeze your brain and let scientists study it about 10,000 years from now when there just might be enough knowledge to understand such idiocy.

[libsluv2spit]

The earth is going through normal, regular cyclical changes and the rich folk just want to take from the po'''''''' folk. Wake up people.

Posted by MyOpinion1 at 11:25 AM : Jul 30, 2008
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I hope you''''re right, my friend! I REALLY do!
But, I doubt it.

I doubt this is normal, cyclical activity! Whether and how much instability it may cause in the weather cycle, we shall see! But, it''''s not good.


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Posted by stn_sage at 11:40 AM : Jul 30, 2008
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al gore already had his share..and every now and then when that coffer goes low or that notariety goes down..they ''milk'' the environment again..

[libsluv2spit]

Posted by libsluv2spit at 11:48 AM : Jul 30, 2008
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correction" ''NOT'' on top of the food chain

[libsluv2spit]

too bad the last ''global warming'' we had, those jurrasic animals did not have al gore to save them..THEY REALY WREAKED THE ENVIRONMENT THEN..

when will humans stop thinking that they are on top the the proverbial food chain...when this planet decides to get cool or warm..it will do so..

[stn_sage]

The earth is going through normal, regular cyclical changes and the rich folk just want to take from the po'''' folk. Wake up people.

Posted by MyOpinion1 at 11:25 AM : Jul 30, 2008
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I hope you''re right, my friend! I REALLY do!
But, I doubt it.

I doubt this is normal, cyclical activity! Whether and how much instability it may cause in the weather cycle, we shall see! But, it''s not good.

[bobnjersey]

not a problem ... the new bush plan is to develop a really big freezer ... we''ll create our own ice. this is what he does at his ranch in the summer ... very refreshing!

[ubrew12]

rf35 said: "Natural global warming appears to have been affecting the arctic ice since the early 1900''s. "

We''ve been burning coal in large quantities since the 1830''s. Still it seems reasonable that ice shelf breakages preceding 1930 or so are unrelated to modern global warming. To those for whom this is ALL just a delayed reaction to the end of the last ice age, I usually say: "If I told you, you were about to get hit by a tidal wave, you''d tell me the tide''s been rising all morning". Its two different things, with one thing in common: Polar ice reacts very slowly to these kinds of forcings. Very definitely, even if we took gigantic steps today to forestall global warming, things would get much worse in the Polar regions before they''d get better. I don''t know why global warming deniers are somehow comforted by that thought...

[antoniof123]

I am still amazed that there are people out there that have no clue.

[rf35]

Natural global warming appears to have been affecting the arctic ice since the early 1900''s. I guess man-made global warming theories will have to back-pedal to get the story back on track. Still, I have to hand it to anthropogenic global warming hysteria; without it, renewable energy might never get global attention. Keep fighting, Al. You might be wrong, but the results are still for the best.