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Sycamores in the morning sun
Ice, a 160-square mile chunk, has broken off the Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf. (Video at the link). I can’t quite envision 160-square-miles of ice. The Washington Post says seven times the size of Manhattan but I’m not an East Coast gal so that doesn’t give me a clue. Owen County, Kentucky, where I was raised, is about 350 square miles, so I reckon we’re talking about half of Owen County falling off into the ocean. Or maybe like Carroll County sliding off into the Ohio River. The entire Ice Shelf is the size of Connecticut, comparable to the Jackson Purchase.
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1. Tommy replies at 28th March 2008, 8:25 am :
I get so frustrated at the global warming deniers, or those who say there’s nothing we can do, so we might as well all buy Hummers.
So maybe we’ve done too much, passed the point of no return, and Kentucky’s going to be an inland sea again for the first time in 100 million years. Does that then mean that cutting our carbon emissions now will not lessen the effects over the long run?
I could run on for hundreds of words, so let me just say: I am alarmed and regretful that a chunk of ice the size of a Kentucky county is melting.
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