top story at msnbc - rapid change

[montana500]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11385475/

"ST. LOUIS - Satellite observations indicate that Greenland's glaciers have been dumping ice into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate that's doubled over the past five years, researchers reported here on Thursday. The findings add yet another factor to the long-running debate over the effect of climate change on the world's ice sheets and sea levels.

"The evolution of the ice sheet, in the context of climate warming, is more rapid than has been predicted by models," one of the researchers, Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told MSNBC.com. As a result, Greenland's ice sheet — second only to Antarctica's ice sheet, with almost as much area as Mexico — could contribute more than expected to rising sea levels in a warming world, he said."

[tom_paine]

1. While we refight the battles won in the last century against Bushevik

Tyrants, the Earth prepares a trump card or two to our petty monkey-fights.

It may well be that 2000 represented far more than the end of the Old American Republic.

Dec 12th, 2000 MAY (and I sterss MAY) also bethe demarcation line which represents the Point of No Return on the extinction of the human species.

Although, if humans go extinct, I somehow think it will take at least two more millenia.

[ellenfl]

2. yes, but the guy from the cato institute

said that greenland is creating ice even as it is losing it. i didn't know the cato institute was made up of scientists.

ellen fl

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Close-the Cato Institute uses made-up scientists

[montana500]

4. hehehhe

nm