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[tigerfort]

Further to previous reports, the bridge connecting Wilkins ice shelf to Charcot Island has finally snapped. But you must understand that there's absolutely no evidence for anthropogenic global warming, and no need to do anything about carbon dioxide emissions or anything like that. Absolutely not.

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[alitalf.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to make sense that global temperature changes are responsible for this, any more than they are responsible for the advancing ice in areas of North America. Whether the change is mostly anthropogenic or not is not so clear as some would have it. If it is, then was the little ice age also anthropogenic, and is the current trend that appears to be cooling also caused by the human race? This graph of temperatures measured from space (http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/) shows what looks like about 0.2C rise in 30 years, which would not account for much ice melting, if it were uniform over the globe.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Brief summary: But the temperature changes aren't uniform, and were never expected to be. The Antarctic has a semi-isolated climate of its own, and was always (1970s models) expected to warm faster than the rest of the globe.

(I'm currently a little short of arm-function, and will try to reply properly - including citations - later; please remind me in a couple of days if I haven't done so and you're interested.)