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By Peter Ridd, published 27/3/2008Australia has ended up with a government that is supposedly committed to greenhouse reductions but with no hope of achieving its objective.
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The collapse of a substantial section of the shelf was triggered February 28 when an iceberg measuring 41 by 2.4 kilometers (25.5 by 1.5 miles) broke off its southwestern front. That movement led to disintegration of the shelf's interior, of which 414 square kilometers (160 square miles) have already disappeared, scientists say...
Over the past half century, the western Antarctic Peninsula has experienced the steepest temperature increase on Earth, 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 Farenheit) per decade…...”
The full story is at Sydney Morning Herald website:http://news.smh.com.au/big-chunk-of-antarctic-ice-shelf-falling-apart/20080326-21p3.html
Below is a link to a cartoon voiced by the inimitable John Clarke – warning it contains images of Polar Bears….
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pK6KZE4gxa0