Shrinking Ice is a Breakthrough of the Year

Shrinking Ice

“Shrinking Ice” has made science magazine’s list of Breakthroughs of the Year. While a terrifying phenomenon, I suppose it is good to see it getting plenty of attention still, both in the scientific community, and with the public at large.

-- MattShanley

PEGASUS Says:

Is anyone else saddened by the lack of rainbows?

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PEGASUS Says:

I want a pony

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JockGill Says:

See Andy REvkin’s NY Times article in today’s paper:

arctic ice Shelf Broke Off Canadian Island

A 25-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada’s northernmost shore broke away abruptly in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures and jostling wind and waves, scientists said yesterday.

[www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/science/earth/30ice.html?hp&ex=1167454800&en=eb5d838b27550ca9&ei=5094&partner=homepage]

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