Antarctica

Global Warming and U.S. Conservatives

April 13, 2009

Michael Conniff wrote a great article on the Huffington Post yesterday about how American conservatives are downplaying the effects and even denying global warming itself. According to scientists, the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed 3ºC since the 1950’s. Britain’s own David Vaughan, an Antarctic Survey glaciologist, said, “We’ve been watching it all summer, waiting for it to go, and bang—now it’s gone.” He is referring, of course, to the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which is no longer .....

Wilkins Ice Shelf News

April 5, 2009

“PARIS (AFP) — A Jamaica-sized ice shelf is close to wrenching itself away from Antarctica, following dramatic weakening of an ice “bridge” linking it to the continent, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported Friday.” AFP The Wilkins Ice Shelf part of the Antarctic ice shelf has just severed its last links with land and is happily breaking up into lots of icebergs and heading off to sea leaving the Antarctic, once again the map of .....

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