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Global Warming Alert: Ministers get close look at Antarctic ice threat
2009-02-23
TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica -- A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in this remote corner of the icy continent on Monday, in the final days of an intense season of climate research, to learn more about how a melting Antarctica may endanger the planet.
What an appropriate name...
Representatives from more than a dozen nations, including the U.S., China, Britain and Russia, were to rendezvous at a Norwegian research station with American and Norwegian scientists coming in on the last leg of a 1,400-mile (2,300-kilometer), two-month trek over the ice from the South Pole. The visitors will gain "hands-on experience of the colossal magnitude of the Antarctic continent and its role in global climate change," said the mission's organizer, Norway's Environment Ministry.
It's..."colossal"! "Stupendenous"! "Monumental"! It's "really big"! Maybe...
Posted by:tu3031

#10  Yeah, every year 88% of the Antartic sea ice melts. So they stand around saying, "OMG OMG it's melting!" as they watch the icebergs calve off.
Posted by: KBK   2009-02-23 21:29  

#9  
Posted by: KBK   2009-02-23 19:38  

#8  Last report I have seen said that the ice sheets in Antarctica are growing. It is amusing they visit there only at the end of summer in that hemisphere. I invite them to come see in the winter.
Posted by: Lagom   2009-02-23 19:35  

#7  Great comments, tu.
Posted by: phil_b   2009-02-23 19:19  

#6  The Czech Republic, a 1,000 kilometers from the ocean and nowhere less than 100 meters above sea level, clearly has a vital interest here.
Posted by: phil_b   2009-02-23 19:19  

#5  
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-02-23 19:09  

#4  Global Warming = Biggest. Farce. Ever.
Posted by: Iblis   2009-02-23 18:26  

#3  "Methinks they overate man's effects on the planet or they hate people."

I do believe it's Door #2, John.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-02-23 18:00  

#2  Hopefully, I don't drown in the tunnel

Global Warming® won't cause you to drown in Boston's Tunnel System.

Shoddy workmanship will.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2009-02-23 16:32  

#1  Man wasn't around for many of the previous ice ages and warming times. How do the global warming enthusiasts explain that? Methinks they overate man's effects on the planet or they hate people. If they really believe that global warming is the result of man, they should be sent over to China and India to convince them to change their way of doing things--whatever that would be.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-02-23 15:47  

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