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.
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... Read Full Story
This from the Independant UK: Scientists are warning that an Antarctic ice shelf the size of Northern Ireland is on the verge of disintegration, even though it is now the middle of the southern hemisphere's winter. The European Space Agency says new satellite pictures show that the Wilkins shelf - the largest to be threatened so far - is "hanging by its last thread". Extending for approximately 5,600 square miles, it has been held in place by a thin ice bridge connecting it to an island... Read Full Story
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 would put the trend in a temporary deep freeze. read more | digg story Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
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... Read Full Story
