[SustainableTompkins] Antarctic Shelf 'Hangs By A Thread'

[Tony Del Plato]

I know that this thread has strayed a bit from what ST is about but in case
we've forgotten, the media in the US is about "selling" news. If you missed
yesterday's Ithaca Journal, a front page article was about Gov Patterson
traveling to a Sen Clinton event with someone he had had a past romantic
dalliance. Now that's useful information!!
Tony

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Maiken Winter <mw267 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Oh , but it's all just rumours of some panicy researchers who want more
> funding; so why pay any attention? ;-)
>
> > And why wasn't this on the front page of any major print medium? Do we
> > have to wait for Tuesday's Science Times before we get wind of this? I
> > hardly think "The Obama Girl" is more pressing a news story than
> > arctic ice sheets melting at a faster rate than speculated.
> >
> > On 3/27/08, Molly Brewton <mb105 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >> I would add that ice serves the function of reflecting heat away from
> >> the
> >>  planet.  Once the ice is gone, it won't be able to do that.  To make
> >>  matters worse, water is a very good holder of heat, so the open sea
> >> will
> >>  tend to retain heat and increase the process of planet-wide warming.
> >>
> >>
> >>  Molly
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>   At 10:18 AM 3/27/2008, you wrote:
> >>  >The real implicatiosn are, that, once the iceshelf is gone, there is
> >>  >nothing to keep the glaciers to move even faster into the sea. And
> >> once
> >>  >land-based ice is added to the sea, then sea-levels will rise.
> >>  >The implications are that so far all the models from scientists about
> >>  >arctic and antarctic melting are proven right, but much faster than
> >>  >expected.
> >>  >The implications are that the world's politicians's ought to start to
> >> get
> >>  >moving a bit faster, too.
> >>  >Maiken
> >>  >
> >>  > > I heard a short reference to the ice shelf's collapse on the radio
> >> on
> >>  > > my morning commute yesterday but had a really difficult time
> trying
> >> to
> >>  > > find any other news coverage. Here is a link to the BBC's article.
> >>  > >
> >>  > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7313264.stm
> >>  > >
> >>  > > All reports that I have uncovered explain that this will not cause
> >> a
> >>  > > rise in sea levels, therefore, downplaying the implications of
> this
> >>  > > event. But can someone please explain what some of the real
> >>  > > implications are?
> >>  > >
> >>  > > Thanks,
> >>  > >
> >>  > > Rena
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