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Politics : Apocalypse soon? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: xcr600 who wrote (308)	2/14/2006 9:22:32 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2741

Stuart, Letterman & Leno were on it last night with the Cheney deal. Letterman had Biff running out and shooting a hunter out of the ceiling, funny as hell, and Alan Coulter really did a sizzle piece on Cheney, big time. Stuart was good too, but I give Letterman a 10.0 Anyone else catch the fun? That McClellan is a dick, but that is the job, being a dick... This thing won't go away for awhile.

To: xcr600 who wrote (308)	2/16/2006 5:00:53 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 2741

Greenland's glaciers are sliding towards the sea much faster than previously believed, scientists have told a conference in St Louis, US. It was thought the entire Greenland ice sheet could melt in about 1,000 years, but the latest evidence suggests that could happen much sooner. It implies that sea levels will rise much faster as well. Details of the study, by Nasa and University of Kansas researchers, are also reported in the journal Science. The comprehensive analysis found that the amount of ice dumped into the Atlantic Ocean has doubled in the last five years. If the Greenland ice sheet melted completely, it would raise global sea levels by about 7m. "It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes," said co-author Eric Rignot, from the US space agency's (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Rising surface air-temperatures seem to be behind the increases in glacier speed in the southern half of Greenland since 1996; but the northward spread of warmer temperatures may be responsible for a rapid increase in glacier speed further north after 2000. Dr Rignot and colleagues described their results at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.