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Re: Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drough

2006-03-31, 2:21 am

In article <WeadnTACyu2qwLHZnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@golden.net>,
Solar Flare <sfart@hottomale.invalid> wrote:

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>
>"Some scientists say that increased moisture from global warming could
>turn to snow in the Antarctic. This could actually contribute to a
>fall in sea level as the Antarctic locks up the moisture as ice. Most
>scientists caution that it is very hard to predict what will actually
>happen."

unfortunately, this model is empirically incorrect; west antarctica has
been knwon to be losing ice mass for some years; and last week's issue
of Science contains a new result by Vellicogna and Wahr
that indicates that east antarctica is melting also ...

sidd

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