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OMFG - we are all gonna die - Antarctic Ice melting

Like the good little environmentalists they are, the global warming folks are taking their favorite news stories and recycling them. Here are two items, one from March 25, 2008 and one from April 5, 2009:
Click to embiggen... From Anthony at Watts Up with That:

The Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse: Media recycles photos and storylines from previous years
Those masters of disaster are at it again, and it appears our friendly scientists at that National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) help this story along each year.

It seems that not only is the photography recycled, so is the storyline. It seems to happen every year, about this time. Note the photos show shear failure and cracks, not melted ice. Shear failure is mostly mechanical-stress related, though ice does tend to be more brittle at colder temperatures.

And this little gem:

But wait, there’s more examples of that “not very often” Wilkins ice shelf breakup, again from the appinsys web site:

As the following historical satellite images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf show, the disintegration / re-growth is an annual event (winter ice re-growth season; summer melt season).

Anthropogenic Global Warming is not real. Our climate is driven by the sun which is a variable star and we are entering a cool phase. It is a political power grab folks, it is not science. Posted by DaveH at April 18, 2009 9:08 AM | TrackBack