Icebergs Sailing Past New Zealand 236
An anonymous reader writes "A fleet of icebergs is heading north from Antarctica and at least one has reached New Zealand, an event that has not occurred in decades. While not necessarily a consequence of global warming it is very cool!"
Offtopic - hyperlink grammar (Score:2, Interesting)
Did anyone else parse that as a grammatical error because of the placement of the hyperlink? I think something fun and insightful would come of a study on the different ways hyperlinks interact with their surrounding verbiage.
Re:Crazy weather (Score:1, Interesting)
The wind itself was an anomoly because by this time of year its usually warm breezes, not icy gales.
Re:Why would it? (Score:3, Interesting)
"Oh, for God's sake. It's a verifiable fact that significant amounts of Antarctic ice that have never been thawed in recorded human history are now gone. See for example this article"
Thats a small part of the Antarctic ice sheet. The East Antarctic sheet is actually growing [physorg.com].
"Though if you seriously think every person complaining about global warming is too stupid to know when it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere, then I don't think it's worth expending much effort talking to you."
No, not every person. Most do understand the complexities of the planet's climate. However, some do not. If their first reaction to hearing about icebergs in the region was to think it must be global warming, then they probably do not understand how the seasons work.
So let me get this straight, more ice = warming? (Score:2, Interesting)
These days you get any freaky weather event, and it gets blamed on global warming. Even when it doesn't make sense.
Surely, more ice making it further north would, if anything, be supporting evidence for datasets that show the oceans are getting cooler [agu.org]? You might also note that some data sets suggest that the global warming trend is not present [blogspot.com] in the Southern Hemisphere.
There is some evidence that the icecaps melting around the edges, but getting thicker in the middle [co2science.org]. Perhaps that's because the Sun's output is a huge factor to global warming [agu.org], and there are no sunspots this year [nasa.gov]?