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 TW>>> Some Glacers just refuse to Melt, the

 BK>>  And a great many are melting. Many ice caps are disappearing.

 BA> Sea level is rising, and that's a big concern for the
 BA> people of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.  Those
 BA> islands are only a few feet above sea level.

 TW>>> Antartic Ice pack is building,

 BK>>  Is it? Do you have a reference for that? Building thicker, or
 BK>>  expanding around the edges? Thicker would be typical of early
 BK>>  global warming. Growing around the edges would by typical of
 BK>>  global cooling.

 BA> There have been some huge pieces of that ice pack that have
 BA> broken loose.  Don't know if those floes have left
 BA> Antarctica, though.

 Some people refuse to understand, a 2 degree rise might move
 Antartica from -40 to -38. The real difference is in the
 transistion areas, and evaporation from the tropics.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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