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Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half 414

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 09, 2010 @03:57AM
from the not-so-bad-after-all dept.

bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted,' said researcher Bert Vermeeersen."

Comment: Re:Sounds like a culture problem to me... (Score 1) 245

by PaneerParantha on Sunday January 03, 2010 @09:02AM (#30631380) Attached to: Google Sets Censorship Precedent In India

>>Indians themselves have killed more Indians than outsiders ever did

Even if true, what will that prove?

I could say that Westerners themselves have killed more Westerners than anyone (killing 6 million Jews and a few million soldiers in the World Wars).
Muslim upon Muslim violence has also led to more Muslims being killed by Muslims than by non-Muslims.

Your view of life is quite unidimensional and doesn't take into account day-to-day routine acts of people living together.

2010

2009

Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 611

by PaneerParantha on Monday August 31, 2009 @11:18AM (#29262129) Attached to: India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months

India has slightly modified Ghandi's 3 step program:

Who is/was Ghandi? Anybody know anyone by that name?

Comment: Word Star, Lotus and dBaseIII ... (Score 1) 157

by PaneerParantha on Thursday July 23, 2009 @01:03PM (#28797871) Attached to: Cloud-Sourcing's Long-Term Impact On IT Careers

In 1987, someone told me that Wordstar, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase III (don't remember if the plus version existed then) will make programmers redundant.

Comment: Re:I hope they succeed. (Score 3, Informative) 374

by PaneerParantha on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:26PM (#26668317) Attached to: India Will Show Its $10 Laptop Prototype

Yamuna, the river on the banks of which the capital city of India is located, is one such river.

"Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, especially around New Delhi, the capital of India, which dumps about 57% of its waste into the river."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamuna