Posted by cactus on March 26, 2008, at 17:19:52
In reply to Re: So Many Weather Symtoms Hot and Cold in USA, posted by Sigismund on March 26, 2008, at 15:19:26
> They were talking about Antarctic ice on the wireless yesterday.
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> I forget the name of the ice shelf.
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> The usual thing......they melt quicker than was realised, and it is happening faster than climate models have predicted.I saw that too, which is just as bad. The really dangerous one too watch out for in the northern hemisphere is Greenland. The Greenland ice mass is melting in exactly the same way that the antarctic ice shelves are. If that ice mass melts into the Atlantic, which might just be a matter of time, the experts think that it could stop the gulf stream or slow it enough to cause unknown effects, and that is not something anyone wants to happen. They also think that because it's melting from underneath it could literally slide off. Weather geek signing off.
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