A new NASA study shows that from 1978 to 2010 the total extent of sea ice surrounding Antarctica in the Southern Ocean grew by roughly 6,600 square miles every year, an area larger than the state of Connecticut. And previous research by the same authors indicates that this rate of increase has recently accelerated, up from an average rate of almost 4,300 square miles per year from 1978 to 2006. It's a lot more complex than watching an Al Gore video. Is the earth warming? Yes. But...in the last 2 million years when we weren't anywhere to be seen, the ice sheets waxed and waned 20 times, with an average of around 5000 years in the "away" box before the ice returned once more. So another *Ice Age is overdue by a few thousand years. And guess what; had it been any different, we'd still be in caves! For it took 10,000+ years to get us from wearing bear skins to having a high tech society. With sea level rise - even with it's massive attendant social upheaval - we can still retreat from the coastal areas...but when a mile high cliff of ice comes calling once more, lasting on average of 75,000 years, we're fucked! *(Any geologist will explain to you that we are still technically IN an Ice Age! It's only weather folk with their super computer modeling, spin and zillions in "research" money that make the global warming story simple.) GLOBAL WARMING SIMPLETONS TAKE NOTE!
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