Piece by piece the hysterical loons will be discredited and this Al Gore led charge of alarmist rhetoric being bandied about the planet will go down in history as another one of man made fallacies that shown how gullible many people can be when they don't think for themselves and rely on government to try and do all their thinking for them as socialists are inclined to do.
Antarctic volcanoes identified as a possible culprit in glacier melting -
International Herald Tribune: "Another factor might be contributing to the thinning of some of the Antarctica's glaciers: volcanoes.In an article published Sunday on the Web site of the journal Nature Geoscience, Hugh Corr and David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey report the identification of a layer of volcanic ash and glass shards frozen within an ice sheet in western Antarctica.
"This is the first time we have seen a volcano beneath the ice sheet punch a hole through the ice sheet" in Antarctica, Vaughan said.
Volcanic heat could still be melting ice to water and contributing to thinning and speeding up of the Pine Island glacier, which passes nearby, but Vaughan said he doubted that it could be affecting other glaciers in western Antarctica, which have also thinned in recent years. Most glaciologists, including Vaughan, say that warmer ocean water is the primary cause of thinning.
Volcanically, Antarctica is a fairly quiet place. But sometime around 325 B.C., the researchers said, a hidden and still active volcano erupted, puncturing several hundred yards of ice above it. Ash and shards from the volcano carried through the air and settled onto the surrounding landscape. That layer is now out of sight, hidden beneath the snows that fell during the next 2,300 years. continued
Some More on Polar Fiction from Campus Reports Online:
Polar Fiction
by: Bethany Stotts, January 22, 2008
CampusReportsOnline.com Chicago, Ill.— Assuming the verifiable truth of global warming, some academics wish to circumvent the climate change debate and start teaching college students about importance of combatting this imminent disaster. Just as some environmentalists have co-opted the polar bear as a symbol for the predicted ecological crisis, Britt Rusert, a doctoral candidate at Duke University, visualizes polar exploration literature as a new outlet for this discourse. “How, I wonder, might such a polar canon help us conceptualize and historicize ecological crises, specifically the master discourse of global warming and their contemporary moments?,” she told a Modern Language Association (MLA) audience this December. She believes that “polar fiction is a potentially exciting place” to “certify climate change.” “What new types of inquiry could be activated...pedagogically to new environmental reality?,” she said.
The panel’s title, “Rethinking Polar Fictions in an Age of Inconvenient Truth,” insinuates a desire to revise history to include “evidence” of global warming. Similarly, Rusert denied the anachronisms of her approach, telling the audience that “American literature shows, in many ways, climate change is nothing new.” No historical revisionism is necessary to advance the climate change agenda.
Bethany Stotts is a Staff Writer at Accuracy in Academia.
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