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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 12:30 PM
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sailboater finds icebergs where there was never icebergs before

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


At dawn, just two days before disaster struck his massive 36-metre trimaran Sobedo last Sunday, French sailor Thomas Coville had his first taste of real fear. In the Southern Ocean, at a latitude just over 840 nautical miles south of Cape Town, he saw icebergs. "It was amazing, I have never seen them so far north." In his report to the Sobedo website, he noted: "I am an eyewitness to this infamous global warming." During that day, he counted 78 icebergs and growlers over a swathe of 280 miles. "Some were the size of that hotel," he said on Sunday, pointing at the Cape Grace. Some of the icebergs, he noted with puzzlement, had rocks embedded in them. The following night, he noted, was "the longest night of my existence".)
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 12:32 PM
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1. I wonder if an ice shelf could have given way
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 12:37 PM
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2. or a glacier picking up rocks as it slides toward the water


they say the glaciers are sliding faster then ever
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 12:45 PM
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3. the frozen bays act like a cork, when the ice sheets melt out of them nothing holds th glacier back
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Wiley50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 01:04 PM
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4. Alert Map at Link Shows Mt St. Helen Code Orange Erupting Now!
Anyone got any info on this?
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 01:20 PM
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6. It's been that way for a while. Here MtStHelens live cams...
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 01:11 PM
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5. Watch global warming deniers say this evidence against global warming
When in reality, it probably means that glaciers are melting at a faster rate, giving birth to icebergs at a faster rate.
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