Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Risks Collapse

[lovuian]

Run time: 01:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DCQ0KcDf9w   Posted on YouTube: March 26, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 26, 2008 By DU Member: lovuian Views on DU: 1026

 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=amx1sGjrgtlM&refer=latin_america

Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Risks Collapse, U.K. Group Says

By Alex Morales

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- An Antarctic ice shelf bigger than Connecticut risks collapse because of global warming after a retreat that began on Feb. 28, the British Antarctic Survey said.

The Wilkins ice shelf, which lost 1,000 square kilometers (390 square miles) of ice, or about 6 percent of its surface, in 1998, calved another 570 square kilometers since February, the survey group said in an e-mailed statement. Now, there's little to stop the loss of another several thousand square kilometers.

``The rest seems to be held a bit by a thread,'' David Vaughan, a scientist at the group who in 1993 predicted Wilkins would break apart within 30 years, said today in a telephone interview from Cambridge, England. ``We predicted it would happen, but it's happened twice as fast as we predicted.''

The collapse of Wilkins would have few implications for sea levels because it's already floating and doesn't hold back large land-based glaciers, Vaughan said. Still, it may foreshadow future melting in the southern continent, which combined with Greenland holds enough ice to raise sea levels by 64 meters.
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Based on the article above... Just video documenting the Global Warming event with video
I have been documenting the rapid warming of the Artic Glaciers and Antartica over the years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9gfLYs2FK0 Glaciers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMwVIfPgCs Alaskan villages being moved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQVqcdx5RzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-7uKPVbFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUuE4f1GIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TcDor0rk98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5tm3RPGkfU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Px6xFRsX4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3jwnasMc-M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOm97US5Uw
there are more
Islands have gone under water Sea coasts from Miami to Suffolk to New Foundland are going under water
Sea level Rise and increased wind speeds all documented
And still I fight everyday Global Warmer Deniers
ok maybe its not all about CO2 emissions maybe its the Sun or other factors but to deny that Global Warming is going on and that CO2 emissions is only making it worse is crazy
and yet they call me crazy

Yep Plato was right people are living in a cave and don't want to come out

[RedEarth]

1. KR

[Kajsa]

2. I hear you, Lovuian.

How does the " global warming is a political hoax"
crowd explain this?


I deal with the deniers of global warming's existence, too.

By the time the naysayers figure out they might be wrong
about this, it'll be too damn late!

K&R.

:kick:

[lovuian]

3. How much evidence do you need???

These naysayers may have a point that CO2 isn't the whole story but to do NOTHING is freakin nuts

[Kajsa]

4. I know!

Somehow, the fact that it is affecting EACH AND EVERYONE
OF US who reside on planet Earth TOTALLY escapes them!

WTH?

Somehow, by dismissing the existence of global warming they
think they won't be affected by it?
Because it " doesn't exist"?!?

Their " reasoning" drives me crazy!

[DS1]

5. those map shots were useless, zoom in and leave it there

[Jack Rabbit]

6. K/R

I should tell you, Lovuian, that I enjoy your work for its for educational and aesthetic content.

[lovuian]

7. Thanks I'm definitely a Amateur but the people need to know

and be educated and our media is wrapped up with Paris Hilton

I've been watching the Global Warming Debate going on and the nay sayers and propoganda out there is intense

but they can't deny the artic and antartica is melting and our news media slumbers away