"gargantuan chunks of ice breaking off the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier"

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050911/ap_on_sc/greenland_arctic_thaw;_ylt=AsIXd93dmmztGemG0m1tm8Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM


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The frequency and size of the icefalls are a powerful reminder that the frozen sheet covering the world's largest island is thinning — a glaring sign of global warming, scientists say.

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In 2002-2003, a six-mile-long stretch of the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier broke off and drifted silently out of the fjord near Ilulissat, Greenland's third largest town, 155 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Although Greenland, three times the size of Texas, is the prime example, scientists say the effects of climate change are noticeable throughout the Arctic region, from the northward spread of spruce beetles in Canada to melting permafrost in Alaska and northern Russia.

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Melting permafrost has damaged hundreds of buildings, railway lines, airport runways and gas pipelines in Russia, according to the 2004 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment commissioned by the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental body.
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I read somewhere that it cost us a lot of money each time a section of our pipeline in Alaska sinks down and they have to fix it.


tick, tick, tick

pretty soon chaos will make too much noise for us to hear the ticking.

[raccoon]

1. If this goes on, it won't be just N-O that needs a rebuilding,

it'll be Charleston, SC, Galveston, TX, Savannah, GA, NYC, ...

[applegrove]

2. Great. More category 4 or 5 hurricanes.