Revealed: The Antarctic iceberg that looks like a giant humbug

Wow, those are amazing.

What comes to mind is that
these are older parts of glaciers breaking
away as the melting goes deeper into
the ice flows.
Our poles are melting fast!

Coming to a end,all on show for the world to see first hand proof of global warming,as the icebergs melt more fresh water dumped in to sea and next the Atlantic conveyor belt and Gulf Stream current would shut down as fresh water dilutes the saltwater,end game soon.

The Science of Abrupt Climate Change:
Should we be worried?

We generally consider climate changes as taking place on the scale of hundreds or even thousands of years. However, since the early 1990s, a radical shift in the scientific understanding of Earth's climate history has occurred. We now know that that major regional and global climate shifts have occurred in just a few decades or even a single year. The most recent of these shifts occurred just 8200 years ago. If an abrupt climate change of similar magnitude happened today, it would have severe consequences for humans and natural ecosystems. Although scientists consider an abrupt climate change unlikely in the next 100 years, their understanding of the phenomena is still a work-in-progress, and such a change could be triggered instantly by natural processes or by human-caused global warming with little warning.

The National Academy of Sciences--the board of scientists established by Congress in 1863 to advise the federal government on scientific matters--compiled a comprehensive report in 2002 entitled, Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises. The 244-page report, which contains over 500 references, was written by a team of 59 of the top researchers in climate, and represents the most authoritative source of information about abrupt climate change available. Most of the material that follows was taken from this report.

[link to www.wunderground.com]

Great Post!

Here's a link to the whole of the original document.


[link to books.nap.edu]

Awesome photos - thanks for pointing them out!

Yes they are Awesome photos,thanks.

2005 report worth looking at.

Gulf stream is slowing to a dead stop
by JONATHAN LEAKE, SCIENCE EDITOR & simon willac Tuesday December 13, 2005 at 11:21 AM
[email protected]

Australia faces the heat as ocean current slows. Did you notice that in the film the day after tommorow there was no mention of Australia?. infact in all climate studies done by western universities no one seems to notice any landmass south of the equator.


Currently the latest piece of obvious prediction scareing Europeans is that Europe and the USA will enter permanent winters where temperatures even in summer will remain below freezing, but still they do not mention what will happen to the hemisphere nearest to the sun.
So I teamed up with Mr Leake of the 'Times' to rectify this blatant disregard for Australians



CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the ocean current that keeps australia from boiling. Reserch has shown that over the last twelve years the gulf stream has slowed by 30 % as a result of global warming.

Scientists have found that one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength.



The weakening, apparently caused by melting ice in the artic diluting the salt that is keeping the saline warmer waters of the gulf stream afloat , could herald big changes here over the next few years.

[link to melbourne.indymedia.org]

Floating in the chilly waters of the Antarctic, this giant slab of ice is streaked with unusually clear and colourful blue, green and brown stripes.

Some formed when layers of the iceberg melted and refroze.

Others were created from the dusk and soil picked up when ice sheet that gave birth to the berg was sliding down an Antarctic hillside. The stunning marbled berg was captured.

Mystery surrounds strange marbled markings spotted in iceberg off the Antarctic

[link to www.silobreaker.com]

Mysterous, bizarre-looking creatures found in Antarctica


Brightly coloured coralline, bryozoans and sponges sit on the ocean floor at a depth of about 600 metres (1970 feet) on the Antarctic continental shelf are shown in this handout image made available on February 19, 2008. Scientists studying Antarctic waters have filmed and captured giant sea creatures and an unknown species of sea life. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)


[link to english.eviewweek.com]

They are not melting more than usual.We just had the coldest winter in the last 100 years.Record snow in Jerusalem,Teheran etc.
Icebergs brake away and melt every year,abd then new ones form.Why are you propagandising man made global warming. Global warming,while it lasted was not man made,but naturaly occuring(caused by increased solar activity).

Oh Bullshit.
The poles are melting. Period!
dumbass.

OK, I'm no rocket scientist, but don't these "rings" indicate that there has been melting before? Maybe this really is all cyclical?

Agree they are melting.

Looks kinda pretty