Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier 423
OECD writes "NASA reports that a massive 100-mile-long iceberg is on a collision course (movie) with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA scientists expect a collision to occur no later than January 15, 2005."
Re:Ai chingawa... (Score:4, Insightful)
Its one thing to be scared its another to do something about it.
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Re:Offtopic (Score:3, Insightful)
Or in this case, a Dutch word (berg) like a German (burg).
Re:I wondered how long this would take (Score:1, Insightful)
You're right. You're the sharpest knife in the drawer. You've got it together so well you're a seven-can six-pack. The Kyoto protocol is a bunch of pinko commie leftist partisan hogwash expressly designed to get you into an itchy, brown wool commie skirt and red lip gloss just in time for the community sing of "All Hail Dear Leader", and has nothing to do with a consortium of scientists from all over the globe and countries that span the entire political spectrum.
You're certainly astute, and not glib. Your comments are totally focused and concise, and not sweeping, reactionary generalizations. Every single climate scientist and adherent to the Kyoto protocol is leftist scum. Because there's only right, and wrong, right?
Did you know that there has been a descriptive phrase invented on the internet just for you?
Unrelenting fucktard.
May you, your shithole of a trailer and your even more ignorant cousin/sisterwife get sucked into an F5 tornado, along with that walking mange of a coondog and that pile of wrecked steel and cinderblocks you call a driveway, you nunshitting popefelcher.
Please stop logging in here, lackwit. The chiggers that fall out of your mullet are absolutely disgusting. Your dog smells. You smell worse than a tour-ripe hippy rolling - stoned - in a steamy March meadow full of fresh cowpies. You have no idea how much we've been spending on deadly toxic fumigants to delouse the place after you finally leave.
Re:Ai chingawa... (Score:3, Insightful)
I've seen this stated in exactly one TV documentary. A documentary, which claimed that each and every other study on global warming is based on false data. Has this new study been peer-reviewed? Does anyone have any more info?
Re:This is important because... (Score:5, Insightful)
Uh, no. This is Antarctica, where most of the glacier is over land or supported by it in some way. If the glacier slides off, it would cause an increase (abeit slight) in ocean levels.
This is my biggest gripe with how the media messed up public perception of "global warming." The press focuses so much on "rising ocean levels" due to melting floating ice that they gave the cranks ammunition to debunk the science. The reality is that it should be called "climatic change" and is more likely to cause extremes of drought/flooding and drifting of ariable land than anything else. This website [psu.edu] used to be a good resource for the topic, specifically arguing that the "greenhouse effect" is completely different from global warming.
Climate change is happening, but no one will take the problem seriously anymore, since what everybody feared would happen can't. (Leading to people ignoring what will happen.)