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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 Lagg on Monday July 17 2017, @03:33PM
Heh, you mistake the nature of my remark. I don't do this because of a lifestyle choice. It's a simple reality from medical problems. I'm apart entirely from greenpeace types and therefore could not possibly care less what someone does on an individual level for transport. But the fact has been made clear that next to not being such whores for beef (and therefore farting cows) reducing our reliance on gas and emissions resulting from it is a pretty solid next step that doesn't require any technology changes beyond continuously improving emissions standards. Which is something being worked against as hard as possible currently, so that's unfortunate. By all means drive a big ol' gas trucker around if you want to stick it to "the left". Biology doesn't care what your affiliation is. These are facts. And are as plain to me as saying the ocean is salty.
Also in my personal experience not driving and therefore not having to deal with what goes along with it (insurance, maintenance, payments) has been an overall simplification. I have lived in the desert and a state capitol. This remains true. The rest of the world manages fine in a lot of cases and america itself managed fine before the industry wanted to capitalize on suburb migration. We could have been a leader in public transport had it not been for this.
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