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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (36135)	12/5/2012 3:49:03 PM
From: Hawkmoon	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Listen Wharf Rat... If you're going to get in the middle of my debate with LS, please make sure you quote me correctly, ok? LS made the assertion that the record Sea Ice this past September, at the height of the Antarctic winter, was due to calving of icebergs from glaciers. I merely answered in the following sarcastic manner.. Please note the key phrase "if your premise was correct".. It would make more sense that record sea ice was recorded in the summertime due to calving ice bergs, if your premise was correct.. As for that article on that large iceberg preparing to calve, what is it supposed to do, keep growing until it reaches the equator?? It appears that this calving event has been in process since the 1970s and may be primarily due to the shape of the underbottom of the glacier.. Robotics helped discover the apparent cause of this rapid melting. On the 2009 cruise, researcher Adrian Jenkins at the British Antarctic Survey and his colleagues sent a robot submarine beneath the ice shelf, revealing an underwater ridge. The researchers think this ridge once slowed the glacier like a giant retaining wall, but when the receding glacier detached from the ridge sometime before the 1970s, warm deep water gained access to deeper parts of the glacier. ouramazingplanet.com Hawk