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Post by CMF Newsman on Jun 7, 2007 8:53:36 GMT -5
ILULISSAT, Greenland (Reuters) - Atop Greenland's Suicide Cliff, from where old Inuit women used to hurl themselves when they felt they had become a burden to their community, a crack and a thud like thunder pierce the air. "We don't have thunder here. But I know it from movies," says Ilulissat nurse Vilhelmina Nathanielsen, who hiked with us through the melting snow. "It's the ice cracking inside the icebergs. If we're lucky we might see one break apart." It's too early in the year to see icebergs crumple regularly but the sound is a reminder. As politicians squabble over how to act on climate change, Greenland's ice cap is melting, and faster than scientists had thought possible. A new island in East Greenland is a clear sign of how the place is changing. It was dubbed Warming Island by American explorer Dennis Schmitt when he discovered in 2005 that it had emerged from under the retreating ice. story
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Post by gridbug on Jun 7, 2007 13:14:49 GMT -5
Kevorkian Kliff?
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Post by one on Jun 13, 2007 14:21:56 GMT -5
Can't wait for the flowers to bloom. Nice fresh air, no pollution, few neighbors...... Makes me wanna pack the truck just thinking about it.
Melt already god damnit.......
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2007 19:36:46 GMT -5
What?!? And leave the desert southeast?
It's not the heat, it's the, uh, uh, never mind.
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