18-Mile Crack Seen by NASA in Antarctic Glacier

Interesting. Yet, I’m not worried. I know that this planet has more time without polar ice than with polar ice. I fully expect this planet to lose its polar ice. Completely normal.

At one point, spanning millions of years, the entire earth was covered in ice over 2 miles thick. Posted by: earthscience | February 3, 2012, 7:23 am.

When was that?

When was that?
Posted by: A Cynic | February 3, 2012, 9:13 am 9:13 am

Yesterday, where were you? ;-)

Seems logical to me. Take an ice cube out of your freezer. It seems to melt very slow in the beginning and speed up, melting very quickly toward the end. I agree that prior to the ice age, this planet never had polar ice. It wasn’t cold enough. Something happened to freeze the planet (ice age) and it has been thawing ever since.

Every time a massive iceberg breaks loose in Antarctica, the global warming folks start shouting ‘the sky is falling…the sky is falling.’ Even with no global warming, there would be icebergs breaking loose on a regular basis as long as there continues to be precipitation in Antarctica.

nteresting. Yet, I’m not worried. I know that this planet has more time without polar ice than with polar ice. I fully expect this planet to lose its polar ice. Completely normal.POSTED BY: MIKE ****************
and the extinction of life, perfectly normal. Cleanse the earth of humans

Johnny: Mommy when I put a water filled glass in the freezer, it cracked. Is it because of the heat?
Mommy: No, Johnny, it is because frozen water expands when frozen
Johnny: Oh, ok.

Hasn’t it been proven that the poles have melted before and old sea farers sailed across the north pole? How many warming then cooling cycles has the earth been through?

No, that was a hot air ballon Bobby Dean!

Posted by: A Cynic—When there was a super continent called Rodinia. The planet was frozen from pole to pole like Hoth in Star Wars.

It may be normal, but definitely not at the rate that it’s been going. I still can’t believe that people think global warming isn’t real. You should all take an ecology class and learn about it. So ignorant.

If you are so smart to post the above comment then maybe you should take a history class this happens it has happened in the past and will happen long after you are gone, soon we all hope.

Posted by: MadGuy1961—I would rather put them on an iceberg and send them to the equator, but that is just me.

The shear stupidity displayed in these comments is appalling.

“It’s all part of a normal heating/cooling cycle.” The last time the Earth’s temperature rose by 5 degrees, 99% of all life on the planet died. It was called the Great Permian Extinction. We have already raised the temperature of the Earth 2 degrees. There are natural variations in the Earth’s orbital elements that cause some heating and warming, known as the Milankovich Cycles. These are extremely well known and show that we should be COOLING.

“[T]he entire earth was covered in ice over 2 miles thick.” And just where did all this water come from and then go to? The deniers feel that they can just make any obviously fallacious statement they want and no one will question it. After all, they didn’t.

“[T]he sun was getting larger with time.” Never mind that the energy output of the sun is known (for good reason) as the Solar Constant and has fluctuated (NOT changed) by all of one half of one tenth of one percent over the last two centuries. What some yokel ‘remembers’ from grade school trumps any actual facts.

“(It’s) been proven that the poles have melted before and old sea farers sailed across the north pole.” Do these posters have any knowledge whatsoever of either the Franklin Expedition or the hardhips endured by Amundsen in actually making this transit? No, but they casually assert a demonstrably false ‘fact’ in support of their ignorant position.

“China and India blah, blah, blah.” China produces abour one tenth of the greenhouse gasses as the United States on a per capita basis and leads the world in both solar and wind technology. But to the deniers it’s always somebody else’s fault, or there’s a ‘reason’ why we should be able to contiue to polute the atmosphere for the entire planet for our own benefit. Go figure.

snewsom2997: So your ‘solution’ is to simply give up and wait for the planet to kill off its infestation of humans? While that WILL happen if we, in fact, do nothing but continue to pollute, I prefer to believe that if what we did was within our capability, so is its undoing. But in the meantime, please stop blaming other people (China and India) for the problems that WE created.

And yet another denier posts his half cent’s worth of ‘science’ from grade school and expects to be taken seriously. Yes, glaciers flow downhill (Duh!), But they retreat because the ice at the toe is melting faster than it is being replaced (a result of warming), and their flow downhill speeds up as its base becomes decoupled from the ground below it, by melting (a result of warming). Colder climate would result in growing, slower glaciers. Some people simply need to go back to school.

Your all fools ,you all fight about who is right or wrong . None of you are correct. Its all about the money ! And you all pay and play in a suckers game. How much can you make or spend on this fantasy they involve us all in. Nobody can control the earth ! If you think we can you are mistaken . How many trees are cut down to make all the paper that has all the information for us to read about climate change ? How many jet rides is necessary for climate officials to go give a speech at some collage ? Or convention? And on and on and on ! Its just another way of the man trying to control us all ! You all have a nice day as you drive to Starbucks to get your Latte :)