An ice bridge holding a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place has shattered and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming, a scientist said Saturday.
“It’s amazing how the ice has ruptured,” said David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey. “Two days ago it was intact,” he said, referring to a satellite image of the Wilkins ice shelf.
The satellite picture, by the European Space Agency, showed that a strip of ice about 25 miles long that is believed to pin the ice shelf in place had snapped.
Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsing Again
Posted by Greg Laden on April 5, 2009
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the ice bridge collapse is a hoax, perpetrated by the pinko Europeans to stifle the economic development of America!!!!11!
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One can’t get decent ice bridges now-a-days.
Back in the old days, they were made slowly and with care and precision.
Now they just pump out cheap knockoffs in China and South Korea.
April 6, 2009
April 6, 2009
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