Sunday, April 13, 2008

Largest Remaining Ice Shelf in Arctic Breaking Up

Readers of The Globe and Mail's climate change-related articles will know the website is infested with climate change deniers in the comments section. What I would like to know is how they explain something like this. I'll make some guesses just for humor's sake, and because I find it too heartbreaking and frustrating to even wade into the comments there.

  • The reason the ice assessors can't find the poles measuring ice thickness is because some eco-saboteurs a la Michael Crichton's imagination came and stole them to back up their climate change hypothesis.
  • The climate has always had warming periods and those kilometers long, meters wide cracks will close up any time now.
  • It doesn't matter anyway, it's too expensive to do anything about climate change, and besides, Canada could use some warmer weather.
This article was found via Environmental Health News, which is crammed full of useful, relevant information on, uh, environment and health.

*Image from the NOAA Photo Library.

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