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Wilkins Ice Shelf
The Wilkins Ice Shelf is a huge glacier on the western Antarctic Peninsula. Scientists fear that global climate change is causing the ice shelf to break up and melt.
At the risk of being called a sceptic, an ABC report at the weekend on the Wilkins Ice Shelf being in danger of breaking off from Antarctica sent me scurrying back to look at the data for myself, writes Richard Farmer.
- Wilkins Ice Shelf Hanging by its Last Thread (digg.com)
- Wilkins Ice Shelf Barely Hangin On (rss.topix.net)
- Wilkins Ice Shelf Destabilized (topix.com)
Scientists said they're concerned an ice bridge in Antarctica connecting the Wilkins Ice Shelf to Charcot Island is close to collapsing.The collapse could put the rest of the 9,000 square-mile ice shelf at risk, the European Space Agency said this week.Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most recent in a...
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- Wilkins Ice Shelf Just Got Smaller (rss.topix.net)
- Wilkins Ice Shelf still vanishing (news.search.yahoo.com)
- Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating, bridge could come down (surfersvillage.com)
PARIS (AFP) - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is...
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From huffingtonpost.com
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Paris, June 15 (ANI): The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica has broken up further, with an area of about 160 km sq. breaking off from May 30 to May 31, 2008.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula, is connected to two islands, Charcot...
From thaindian.com
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- Antarcticas Wilkins Ice shelf experiences further break-up (thaindian.com)
- Even Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf (rss.topix.net)
- Antarctica's Wilkins Ice shelf experiences further break-up (rss.topix.net)
ESA researchers are reporting on the accelerating loss of the
ice bridge that holds the huge shelf to the land. It's
getting pretty close now to just being gone. Interestingly, they
also say that way back in the early 90s when they first sounded
the alarm that the shelf was apparently...
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From technocrat.net
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New satellite images show that an Antarctic ice shelf continues to disintegrate — and even more surprising is that it's happening during the Southern Hemisphere's winter. Experts warned last March, that the Wilkins Ice Shelf was disintegrating more quickly, but they expected that the winter cold...
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From digg.com
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An ice bridge connecting Wilkins Ice Shelf and Charcot Island in Antarctica may collapse very soon. Its demise would likely doom the 9,000-square-mile (16,000-square-kilometer) ice shelf.
- Wilkins Ice Shelf Ice Bridge Threatens Collapse (rss.topix.net)
- Monitoring - Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread (rss.topix.net)
Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica, is further breaking up. After a two month rest period, a new break-up has started and is still continuing, as researchers from the University of Muenster and Bonn report. For the first time a break-up event in Antarctic winter is documented.
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In "a troubling sign of global warming," European scientists say that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica appears to be breaking up. The European Space Agency said yesterday that satellite images show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is "hanging by its last thread," which could "put...
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From thinkprogress.org
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica is larger in area than the state of Connecticut. Until the 1990s, it was stable. In recent years it has shown signs of instability during the summers. Now, in the middle of the Antarctic winter, it shows signs of cracking. Scientists say it is getting ready...
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From irregulartimes.com
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East Jakarta, 2008
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous”
-A.N. Whitehead
This morning I decided to turn on the TV and check the news. The first tings I saw along the bottom in the CNN news tickers was “4,118 coaliton forces dead in Iraq.” Of course “coalition forces” are US soldiers by and large.
The war in Iraq is not only a war for oil, as all the Bush adminstration rationales for the war have now been exposed as blatant lies and intentional fraud, it is a war for oil...
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As, we know the impact of the global warming, now another large plate of ice has broken off the rapidly disintegrating Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula, the above satellite images show. While the ice shelf, located directly below South America, shrank significantly in previous months, this is the first documented occurrence of an ice shelf collapsing during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter. The European Space Agency’s Envisat satellite revealed that approximately 62 square...
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We often times ignore many of the warnings that the Earth gives us that there is something happening and that the global warming, or climate change is here and is a dangerous thing. These photos are recent proof of the need to act now by the global community. The article below is quoted from Cnet. Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica Scientists are citing "rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica" as the cause of an initial collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The...
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