What to believe?
On February 28th the large Wilkins Ice Shelf in west Antartica began to colaps, images of the process between February 28th and March 8th can be found
I am ofcourse concerned about our environment, but I don’t like hysteria, especially when hysteria can ruin an important case. What if people milks money of this hysteria and people find out. What will peoples reaction be? Its like collecting money for starving people in Africa. When people found out that only a small percentage of the money comes the starving people’s beneficial people stopped giving.
What if the general public stopped caring for the environment because a group of people made money of scaring us?
This question comes to my mind these days because I find it strange that David Vaughan screams “GLOBAL WARMING!” today but not long ago explained he explained how fragile this particular area is and why it so unstable. They say “One possible culprit could be a deep ocean current that is channelled onto the continental shelf close to the mouth of the glacier. There is not much sea ice to protect it from the warm water, which seems to be undercutting the ice and lubricating its flow. ” What they forget to tell you is that the Wilkins Ice Shelf rested on water. For hundreds of year this area has seemed to be stable, seen from above! Picture what will happend after 1500 years of waves digging benieth the surface.
I wish the scientists would be more humble, that they think before they leak info to the media.
We need proper actions anyway, not scared people and fake-environment-sollutions. I wonder who benefited David Vaughan’s latest comments.
It is wrong of me to focus on this?
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It’s going to be nearly impossible to determine the true extent of the effect global warming (if we are truly experiencing a phenomenon that can be described as an artificial warming of the earth’s environment) is contributing to this ice shelf’s disintegration. As you point out, this current did not spring up overnight, but has in all actuality been there long before industrialization of the world could be said to contribute to the earth’s warming.
Sensationalism is not limited to news reporters — I’m afraid some scientists fall prey to the lure of public attention and once they receive one dose of it, become addicted and allow their impartiality to fall by the wayside.
Margaret