Global Warming is but another doomsday scenario on the list of things to watch for in what many believe are the end of the world days that we are in.
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"The Antarctic ice sheet is one of two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers
about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the single largest mass of ice on
Earth."
Wikipedia
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The entire mass of ice on the Antarctic continent is about the size of a 30 cubic kilometer ice cube and if it all melted it is estimated that it would add approximately 70 metres of fresh water to the ocean. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the ocean would rise by that much, according to some, because fresh water is less dense than salt water therefore it requires less space.
Soon after the discovery in February of 2008 that about four percent of the Wilkins ice sheet had broken off of the Antartic continent, there came several reports warning that the Antarctic ice sheet seemed to be melting at a faster rate than some scientists had previously predicted. The Wilkins section of ice the journalist were referring to was 200 square kilometers big which is a fraction of the complete 6000 square kilometer Wilkins ice sheet. This however was enough evidence for some scientists to reconsider the validity of the timeline of their past predictions and the impending consequences and role that global warming was playing in this phenomenon. At one time they speculated that the entire Wilkins ice shelf itself would break away in 2020 or later.
These were however not the first pieces of the continent to move away from the continent. While there are not many records going back further than the 1970's, those that do exist show that even larger pieces of ice met the same faith in 2002 and 1995.
And then this week of September 2008 again a few more chunks displace themselves.
In a few reports from the National, a canadian news program, we find some more speculations from the science world about how they believe that the Antartic ice sheet is stable and though it may melt in parts, they say that the eastern side is safe for another 7000 years.
Speculation is to the interpreter what reality is to mother nature. This is the same for the prophecies of 2012. From the same canadian news service we find another article on the history of the Antarctic where the subject of solar radiation (solar flares from the current solar cycle 24 maybe) dating back some 13000 years ago ( half of the great year of the Mayan calendar) would have been responsible for similar global warming effects on the ice shelf.
This is however just speculation. In another article we discover that Global Warming may not be the culprit at all. The phenomenon may be the after effect caused by some oceanic volcanic eruptions beneath the Antartic continent.
Who to believe ????
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One Question: One Answer
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe ?Expediency asks the question - is it politics ?Vanity asks the question - is it popular ?But conscience asks the question - is it right ?And there comes a time when one must take a position that is
neither safe, not political, nor popular, but one must take it because it is
right.Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
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