Paris - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said today. Images taken by its Envisat remote-sensing satellite show that Wilkins Ice Shelf is ''hanging by its last thread'' to Charcot Island.
[typical. ice shelves grow until the break off - it's what they do. The larger they've become, the colder its been to allow it.]
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread'
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