Huge chunk of ice the size of Wales breaks off Options

[pleasehelpmejebu...]

In your face you bastard SUV owners!!!!!!!!


http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalwarming/st...,670456,00.html

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The collapse is believed to have dumped more ice into the Southern Ocean than all of the previous half century's icebergs combined

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My god..

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“Everybody sees what you appear to be, few feel what you are, and those few will not dare to oppose themselves to the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of men, and especially of princes, from which there is no appeal, the end justifies the means. Let a prince therefore aim at conquering and maintaining the state, and the means will always be judged honorable and praised by everyone, for the vulgar is always taken by appearances and the issue of the even; and the world consists only of the vulgar, and the few who are not vulgar are isolated when the many have a rallying point in the prince.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

[Fletcher Christi...]

Interesting. I am sure the oil industry will respond in a responsible way and allay any fears we have. So therefore global warming is just a a normal cycle.

Goodbye Miami Beach

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

[NNY]

is this part of the same event as the one cian posted earlier? or is it in a different location?

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"I stared, motionless, before the mirror. as always, I stayed untill I'm convinced that here is no glass, nothing, seperating me from the room I see on the other side. I imagine that everything is different, over there. better. There are people, in that world, who I would like. But, like always, my hand hits that glass. I know that if I'd only waited just one more second..."

[Fletcher Christi...]

I think they wer both about the Larson B

DElaware...Wales...

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

[NNY]

ok. if its two different icebergs collapseing that is really bad, but if its still just the one, well thats still bad, but not nearly as bad as if the whole place was coming apart.

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"I stared, motionless, before the mirror. as always, I stayed untill I'm convinced that here is no glass, nothing, seperating me from the room I see on the other side. I imagine that everything is different, over there. better. There are people, in that world, who I would like. But, like always, my hand hits that glass. I know that if I'd only waited just one more second..."

[C]

I'm telling you, natural cycle.

The Earth'll be fine, we'll survive, and Miami will still suck balls.

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Bringing more women hither since 1981.

[Susanne]

Another link: www.nsidc.org/iceshelves/larsenb2002/index.html

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

[Google Juice]

The sames has been happening in the artic, and Europe's glaciers have been on the retreat for 2 centuries.
Its not exactly news.....

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[Sasha_digweed on...]

It's nowhere near the size of Wales!

It's the size of Cornwall.

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One World - Happy - Together - Progress.

[PseudoKnight]

In fact, the earth's temperature has remained more steady in the last several thousand years than it has previously. Based on their estimations, global temperatures we're quite eratic (over centuries of course) compared to today. Cian could be right, but we're sure not slowing down the process with our carbon-dioxide emissions. However, by 2010 experts predict our oil pumping will peak and start to decrease due to lack of fossil fuels. Not only that, but people are becoming more consious of this threat and some might make wiser decisions about their lifestyles or business decisions. (we can only hope)

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The Earth'll be fine, we'll survive, and Miami will still suck balls.

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It may be just a normal cycle, but normal Earth cycles don't necessarily keep it's inhabitants live and well. Although I'm sure one of the most intelligent species on the planet (us) would survive.

Edited by - pseudoknight on Mar 20 2002 04:04:40 AM

[Rambler]

Contradiction?

Someone has calculated that an 3°C increase of average "global" temperature will melt Northpole (arctis/antarctis never remember which is which) thus causing a change in (gulf?)stream which will lead to a new ice-age up here in Scandinavia.

It is increasing.
It's mainly because of a normal natural cycle.
It's accelerated though due to our enviromental misbehaviour.

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Du gamla, du fria...
One of these days I'm gonna get myself organized.
All the animals come out at night.
Queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick venal.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets...

[Fletcher Christi...]

quote from PseudoKnight:

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...Although I'm sure one of the most intelligent species on the planet (us) would survive.

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I hardly think this is true. It is the most adaptable and resilient species that will survive. My vote goes to the cockroach, rat, alligator etc. In my life, we have evolved into a culture that has become obese to epidemic proportions, send an alarming increase in heart diease, skin (and other) cancer, STD's, suicide, homocide, unsustainable population growth, environmental destruction...{the list goes on}. Personally I don't think our species is in it for the long haul at all. But it really doesn't matter anyway. If we wipe ouselves out in 500 or 50,000 years, it will be so immaterial it will not matter in the grand scheme of time.

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

[Smack]

Yes. It wouldn't take much to make us go extinct.

The breakup of the Antarctic ice shelves is an environmental disaster. The bottom surface of the ice is a breeding ground for algae, which feed krill, which are to the Southern Ocean as grass is to the prairie.

[C]

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It may be just a normal cycle, but normal Earth cycles don't necessarily keep it's inhabitants live and well.

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Who said "well"?

We'll get by anything short of nuclear holocaust or mass-strike disease.

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Bringing more women hither since 1981.

[NNY]

im wouldnt go that far cian...if the global climates changed that would screw up food supplies amongst other things, cities would be leveled with sea levels rising, other places would dry up and farms, towns, cities and the like would be overtaken by desert. coastal cities are allready fighting tooth and nail with erosion, if the sea level jumped a few feet they would be screwed.

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"I stared, motionless, before the mirror. as always, I stayed untill I'm convinced that here is no glass, nothing, seperating me from the room I see on the other side. I imagine that everything is different, over there. better. There are people, in that world, who I would like. But, like always, my hand hits that glass. I know that if I'd only waited just one more second..."

[C]

We'd still survive.

We can adapt, and we can adapt the terrain for us.

There's no stopping the human rise aside from a Grade A, homogenized across-the-board strike.

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Bringing more women hither since 1981.

[Susanne]

quote from Thoreau:

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It's nowhere near the size of Wales!

It's the size of Cornwall.

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Our media said it's six times the size of the city of Hamburg. (Isn't Cornwall bigger than that?)


Question: Would you consider the above sentence to be correct English?
I was taught that correct indirect speech should be: "Our media said it was six times the size of the city of Hamburg". Does this still hold true?

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

[C]

"It is", "it was"- basically close enough for it not to matter, though, technically it would be "it was" due to the fact that they're stating it happened in the past tense.

When you speak, though, "it is" and "it was" can both sound like the same "its" slur, so it doesn't really matter

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Bringing more women hither since 1981.

[Google Juice]

Cornwall is 1669 sq miles 3546 sq kms (inludes isles of Scilly)

Wales is 8018 sq miles 20,766 sq kms

My guess is that 6 tmes the city of Hamburg possible makes it Cornwall sized. But most likley these are approximations and each country uses a different region/city as a size comparrison.

Not that it matters, 6 tiems the size the size of Hamburg, Cornwall or 1/6 the sizr of Wales, its still pretty fucking big

BTW how big is Hamburg (area), its its own state right?

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[Susanne]

quote from cymruwarrior:

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BTW how big is Hamburg (area), its its own state right?

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Yes, Hamburg is both a city and a state. I covers an area of 753 sq kms. So six times that area equals the size of Cornwall.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim