Monday 17 August 2009

Antarctic glaciers melting

The Pine Island glacier in Antartica seems to be melting at an unprecedented rate, despite global warming skeptics suggesting that Antartica is unaffected by global warming. The melting of Pine Island, will increase sea levels as it melts, listen to the video...

1 comment:

Tarun Kumar said...

It never ceases to amaze how the simple mention of global warming in a news story sets off a tsunami of rhetoric. It generally comes from a very vocal minority that would go to its grave swearing that the sum total of climate science is a liberal plot to enrich Al Gore. Alternately, we are told the Martian ice caps are melting, proof that solar radiation and sunspot cycles — and not greenhouse gases — are the cause of planetary warmups.