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Title: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: rangerrebew on August 09, 2020, 01:32:25 pm
Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed

Milne Ice Shelf lost an area larger than the size of Manhattan and two resulting islands are now dangerously floating in the ocean, scientists say.
 
by Anya Zoledziowski
08 August 2020, 1:55am
 

The Canadian Arctic’s last fully intact ice shelf has collapsed, losing almost half of its area—larger than the borough of Manhattan—in just two days, scientists say.

Milne Ice Shelf is located off the northern coast of Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, a northern Canadian territory home to some 40,000 people, mostly Inuit. Canadian Ice Services said above normal temperatures, offshore winds, and open water in front of the ice shelf caused the calving event over July 30-31.

The ice shelf lost 43 percent of its area or about 80 square kilometers, Reuters reported. The entire borough of Manhattan has an area of about 60 square kilometers.

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/k7qxjm/canadas-last-intact-arctic-ice-shelf-just-collapsed (https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/k7qxjm/canadas-last-intact-arctic-ice-shelf-just-collapsed)
Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 09, 2020, 02:33:14 pm
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Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Idiot on August 09, 2020, 02:42:09 pm
Oh the horror!  We've been warming for thousands of years.  I'd certainly rather be warm than cold.

All one has to do is walk through Central Park in NYC and see the remnants of glaciation.
Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Wingnut on August 09, 2020, 02:43:57 pm
I'm all broken up over Canada's collapse into socialism too. 
Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: skeeter on August 09, 2020, 02:48:27 pm
The rat media pivoting to global warming... must mean the Corona & George Floyd are no longer polling in their favor.
Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Cyber Liberty on August 09, 2020, 02:48:55 pm
I'm all broken up over Canada's collapse into socialism too.

They've always had that in them.  I blame the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of Quebec.
Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Wingnut on August 09, 2020, 02:53:39 pm
They've always had that in them.  I blame the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of Quebec.

Yup,  It's a good thing frogs can swim....
Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Hoodat on August 09, 2020, 08:26:01 pm
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Title: Re: Canada's Last Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Just Collapsed
Post by: Elderberry on August 09, 2020, 08:37:26 pm
Astonishing, Record-Breaking Gains Continue across the Greenland Ice Sheet — MSM Silent

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,410820.msg2265024.html#msg2265024 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,410820.msg2265024.html#msg2265024)

https://electroverse.net/greenlands-summer-melt-season-looks-to-be-over/ (https://electroverse.net/greenlands-summer-melt-season-looks-to-be-over/)

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activist-scientists and their MSM lapdogs have been upping their obfuscating game of late, painting the collapse of a tiny 190 square kilometres ice shelf in northern Canada (Milne) as a catastrophe for all mankind. However, what these frauds fail to mention is the anomalously-low summer melt occurring at the world’s largest island. Greenland‘s ice sheet covers a whopping 1.7 million square kilometres, and so gains/lower-than-average-melt here EASILY offset Milne’s comparatively paltry losses.

The MSM never offers any context, and so the masses never know any better.

Context like, no matter what occurs in or around the Arctic, a whopping 90% of Earth’s ice is locked-up in Antarctica, and ice in and around this southern polar region has actually been INCREASING -since satellite records began 41 years ago: