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Not looking good for ice shelf in the Antarctic

Posted by Sir Oolius (Guest Contributor) at 4:49 PM on 25 Mar 2008

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While the area of collapse involves 160 square miles at present, a large part of the 5,000-square-mile Wilkins Ice Shelf is now supported only by a narrow strip of ice between two islands, said CU-Boulder's Ted Scambos, lead scientist at NSIDC. "If there is a little bit more retreat, this last 'ice buttress' could collapse and we'd likely lose about half the total ice shelf area in the next few years."

Wilkins ice shelf

Shouldn't that be "Region of Beachfront Reclamation"? Liberal media bias!

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Ice Sheet Collapse

I find it curious that AGW can be blamed when there has been no Antarctic warming for the last 29+ years. The trends are negative. They need to find another reason for the calving of an ice island. It's not AGW.
SoPol Negative Trend:
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=ehrp3&s=3&cap ...
SoPol Land Negative Trend:
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=35bxmy1&s=3&c ...
SoPol Ocean Negative Trend:
http://tinypic.com/fullsize.php?pic=2nle1yp&s=3&c ...
Graphs are of MSU data
There an oceanic connection between El Nino oscillations and the Southern Ocean. Maybe that can be used to help explain any regionalized warming, if there is any. Or maybe it's just the natural calving of what has been called an Ice Island for many years.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_54.htm ...
Full paper here.
http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications/pdf/pubs2002/2_ ...
Regards

by Bob Tisdale at 4:15 AM on 26 Mar 2008

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