Well, Mitch is leaving for Asheville tomorrow, so I won't see him again before he leaves for Iraq. Also, work is pretty slow lately. That's sad for me, but good for the few of you who like to read my ramblings.
I'll be posting more again soon, is basically what I'm saying. To keep you aroused, however, here's some GREAT news:Glaciers once held up by a floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now sliding off into the sea -- and they are going fast, scientists said on Tuesday.
Two separate studies from climate researchers and the space agency NASA show the glaciers are flowing into Antarctica's Weddell Sea, freed by the 2002 breakup of the Larsen B ice shelf.
Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers said their satellite measurements suggest climate warming can lead to rapid sea level rise.
The teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said the findings also prove that ice shelves hold back glaciers.
Many teams of researchers are keeping a close eye on parts of Antarctica that are steadily melting. Rest of the article is here.
I have begun to question whether ALL of these problems are our fault. Certainly, we're having an effect on the world's climate, and we'll feel the repurcussions soon. However, the Earth could be going through some major, normal climatological changes that we have no control over. It could still spell the end of our civilization (you tell me whether that's bad) but in the end we may not cause that end ourselves.
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