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2007-02-05 Europe

Polar Bears, Killer Whales Invade Iceland (Maybe?)

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Posted by phil_b 2007-02-05 16:39|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Global cooling! Global cooling! Pack ice in Iceland!

Oh, wait...

Uh, Al...could we have a few words with you?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-02-05 18:52|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-02-05 18:52|| Front Page Top

#2 A recent Nasa study showed that Greenland is losing 53 cubic miles of ice every year, twice the rate in 1996.

And this is what the study summary actually says:

Recent advances in the determination of the mass balance of polar ice sheets show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass by near-coastal thinning, and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with thickening in the west and thinning in the north, is probably thinning overall. The mass imbalance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is likely to be small, but even its sign cannot yet be determined. Large sectors of ice in southeast Greenland, the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula are changing quite rapidly as a result of processes not yet understood.

And here is the relevant segment about Greenland:

The Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins (42 +- 2Gta¹ below the equilibrium-line altitude (ELA)) and growing inland (+53 +- 2Gta¹ above the ELA) with a small overall mass gain (+11 +- 3Gta¹; 0.03mma1 SLE (sea-level equivalent)).

Carramba! How someone can read that as Greenland is losing 53 cubic miles of ice every year is beyond me.

"We've got reports of killer whales attacking every marine mammal in the Arctic"

And this is so surprising... exactly why?
Killer whales attack every marine mammal anywhere.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-02-05 19:24|| 2007-02-05 19:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Send in FLIPPER + GENTLE BEN > Flipper always kicked Killer WHale butt, ditto for Ben wid other Baars.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-05 19:41|| 2007-02-05 19:41|| Front Page Top

#4 There are thought to be about 25,000 polar bears in the wild and environmentalists have warned that they are in danger of becoming extinct as their habitat shrinks.

Simple solution, capture the bears and give them to those environmentalists who are complaining, solves two problems at once, bears have a new food source, and whackos are silent.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-05 20:17|| 2007-02-05 20:17|| Front Page Top

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