"Oh, Canad!"
Giant sheets of ice totaling almost eight square miles (20 square km) broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic last week and more could follow later this year, scientists said on Tuesday. The ice broke away from the shelf on Ward Hunt Island, an small island just off giant Ellesmere Island in one of the northernmost parts of Canada.
Looks like summer . . .
Hooray, we can be sure the ice age is not coming this year because the cycle of melting continues. When we have a year with no AGW hysteria "ice melts when it's warm" stories then I know moving to Panama is the prudent thing to do.
surprise, triciatim doesn't read
Quoting from the article:
"Whatever has kept this ice shelf in balance for 3,000 years is no longer keeping it in balance," he told Reuters, saying he too would not be surprised to see more ice breaking away from the Ward Hunt shelf this year.
Wohlleben said the ice shelves, which contained unique ecosystems that had yet to be studied, would not be replaced because they took so long to form.
:End quotation.
3000 years! Who cares?
I'm sure 3000 years is a long time to you, but to the earth it's a mere sneeze. The Earth is around 4500000000 years old, 3000 years is nothing. I'm sure when the next ice age comes (which is overdue) and we see all of Canada under a mile of ice you'll be tooting the same horn on CO2 emissions. The ice has been retreating on the northern hemisphere for thousands of years . . . it must be caused by SUVs.
reference for overdue ice age?
So, the Earth is 4.5 billion yrs old ... and 3000 yrs is nothing ... and ice has been retreating for thousands of yrs in the northern hemisphere. Okay, point one, correct -- but would you like to randomly select conditions from anywhere in those 4.5 billion years (or even just the warm years) and in a sneeze transform the climate back into that condition? Point 2, 3000 yrs is not long for rocks, but for civilizations and endangered species it is. Point 3, nope. From wikipedia: "an article in Nature[7] argues that the current interglacial might be most analogous to a previous interglacial that lasted 28,000 years. Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next glacial period would not begin before about 50,000 years from now, regardless of man-made global warming [8] (see Milankovitch cycles)."
"New data from the Norwegian
"New data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute shows that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago."
http://www.barentsobserver.com/?cat=16149&id=4498513
And there is plenty of ice elsewhere...if you like ice.
uhuh, so much ice!
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
"Whatever has kept this ice
"Whatever has kept this ice shelf in balance for 3,000 years is no longer keeping it in balance," he told Reuters, saying he too would not be surprised to see more ice breaking away from the Ward Hunt shelf this year."
3000 years????
It collapsed in 1962.
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-3-289.pdf
It did not collapse in 1962
You should actually read your links...