Climate change: Hundreds of Antarctic glaciers in retreat, says study

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The dateline of this article says Paris, where they clearly hate America:

"PARIS (AFP) - Scientists have issued a fresh warning about the effect of climate change on Antarctica, saying that more than 200 coastal glaciers are in retreat because of higher temperatures.

Of the 244 marine glaciers that drain inland ice on the Antarctic peninsula, a region previously identified as vulnerable to global warming, 87 percent have fallen back over the last half century, according to research by British experts.


Using 2,000 aerial photos dating back to the late 1940s and 100 satellite pictures, experts from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) compiled a record of glacier-ice shelves and tidewater glaciers along the peninsula -- the tongue of land that juts 800 kilometers (500 miles) northwards out of continental Antarctica..."

"...Over the last half century, during which time regional temperatures have risen by around 2 C (3.6 F), these glacier fronts have reversed direction, the authors note in a study published on Friday in the US weekly journal Science..."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=5&u=/afp/20050421/sc_afp/climateantarctica_050421201131

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1. Global warming is not true, evolution is only a theory, the earth is flat.

[RC]

2. The sun obviously revolves around the Earth.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Robert Kennedy J r for president!!!!!

[Soopercali]

4. But Dennis Miller says it's no big deal.

And he wouldn't lie, would he?