http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ice_berg_ram.html

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John Shellenberg
1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

http://img31.exs.cx/img31/4050/tophat6.gif

Very cool!

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Anders

1995 E300
2015 VW TDI Sportwagen 15K
1977 240D (197K)
2002 Subaru Legacy L Wagon (115k) (Wife's)
Gone but not forgotten:
2005 Buick LeSabre
1998 C230
1984 300D
1983 240D
1981 300SD
1974 240D
1974 Fiat 124 Spider
1968 Triumph TR250

better buckle up your seatbelts....

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72 W114/M130

RedMeat cartoon

Nothing like watching global warming dismember the planet. Can anyone say "Waterworld"?

The breakup of iceshelves will not raise sea-level, becuase it is already floating in the water - makes no difference. But if an ice shelf breaks off and allows contenental ice to flow into the sea more easily, then it makes a big difference - this will raise sea level. Buy property at >150 ft asl.

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'79 280SE
'87 560SEL
'83 280CE
'01 Nissan Micra
'98 VW Passat
'83 911 turbo

I'm at about 2000'. If it becomes oceanfront property, that shouldn't hurt the value too much...

The most telling thing to me is the Texas-New Mexico border, where you can see the old coast line, and the old off shore islands, and come to the stark realization that in reference to those, Texas would be under about 200 ft of water. The pre-ice age prehistoric maps show the Gulf of Mexico covering the Great Plains, splitting America in half. What changed that? The Ice Age locked all that water up in the Ice Caps. Here's the news: It's coming back.

What, did you just watch "The Day After Tomorrow"?

How long away is that? Most of the ice in the world is in Antartica sitting on dry land, as is the case in Greenland and Northern Canada and Northern Siberia. If they start to melt, we are screwed. They are already detecting a massive acceleration in Greenland.

I meant the water, not the Ice Age. I don't see much sense in that movie's version. The release of methane gas currently trapped in Artic permafrost is going to send us all to greenhouse land. I read a good paper proposing that that is the cycle that sends us rapidly from Ice Age to Dinosaur City, a cylce we have artificially set in motion.

Nature has a way of getting rid of things that cause an imbalance to her system.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!

Speaking of imbalance, when enough ice melts the crust will shift on the molten inner core. The sudden shift will move the polar regions once again, check the positions of Death Valley and the Dead Sea and a couple others.

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'10 Chrysler T&C Stow-N-Go White. Grandpa's ride.

'13 Chrysler 200 Touring Candy Red. Grandma's ride.

Age and cunning will always over come youth and vigor.

There is a site (your tax dollars at work):

http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/index.html

You can check the sitings link and see when it is going overhead. The kids and I have see it dozens of times. Just after sunset is the best.

Also you can see the realtime tracker on where it is at any one time. We saw the station while walking our dog. Got home 20 mins later and looked to see where it was. It was over Africa already. My daughters thought that was way cool.

Chuck