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(CNN)This week, a trillion-ton hunk of ice broke off Antarctica.
You probably know that. It was all over the Internet.
Among the details that have been repeated ad nauseam: The iceberg is nearly the size of Delaware, which prompted some fun musing on Twitter about where exactly Delaware is and how anyone is supposed to approximate the square footage of that US state. The ice, which has been named A68, represents more than 12% of the Larsen C ice shelf, a sliver on the Antarctic Peninsula. And most important: None of this has anything to do with man-made climate change.
The problem: That last detail -- the climate one -- is misleading at best.
At worst, it's wrong.
Some scientists think this has a lot to do with global warming.
I spent most of Thursday on the phone with scientists, talking to them about the huge iceberg off Antarctica and what it means. Here are my five takeaways.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/world/sutter-iceberg-antarctica-climate-change/index.html
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday July 17 2017, @12:19PM (1 child)
If I'm ascetic enough of a monk, the world won't go to Hell. If I just flail myself harder the world will be saved. Well actually what I do is so much of a rounding error that it won't affect anyone or anything else, and I'm not going to do it anyway, just talk about it, but I do get to be holier than thou in public by talking about it. The left likes to make fun of right wing religion and pretend they're atheists, but the left has a very medieval religious world outlook. Twitter is basically left wing televangelism, faith healing, and prayer networks. Global warming is basically the lefts version of the Catholics getting all worked up about transubstantiation or the trinity, that's very interesting in an intellectual sense but people not in faithful to the religion couldn't care less about the argument or expressions of faith. "I believe more and better in the trinity than you so I'm better" means nothing to a Hindu, for example, and its like that when the left impacts reality with global warming.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Monday July 17 2017, @03:13PM
You probably don't vote, either, because your vote doesn't make enough of a difference.