The global warming hoax

The free-floating ice is just above center. Open ocean shows as black here.

An ice shelf is the floating extension of a glacier.

In 2005 the twenty-five square-mile arctic Ayles Ice Shelf disintegrated and broke free.

The event registered as a small earthquake on instruments stationed 150 miles (250 kilometers) away, Warwick Vincent of Quebec's Laval University told the CanWest News Service.

Sixteen months of study led [geographer Luke] Copland and colleagues to the conclusion that several factors were at work, mostly related to global warming.
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There were six Arctic ice shelves. Now there are five. Climate models indicate that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free in summer as soon as the year 2040.

Sea ice is free-floating. So this is totally unrelated news:

The U.S. government today proposed listing polar bears as threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act because the animals' sea ice habitat is melting.
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Rest assured, George Bush, his advisor Michael Crichton, and other eminent scientists say there's nothing to worry about:

I called the threat of catastrophic global warming the 'greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.'

Senator James Inhofe(R-Okla). Link.

And the trees, Spanish bears, and probably the queers and other liberals are in on it, too.

Any of you that are gardeners will be familiar with hardiness maps.
Warning: these too have been hijacked by the shirt-lifters at the Arbor Day Foundation:

The new map reflects that many areas have become warmer since 1990, when the last USDA hardiness zone map was published. Significant portions of many states have shifted at least one full hardiness zone. Much of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, for example, have shifted from Zone 5 to a warmer Zone 6. Some areas around the country have even warmed two full zones.
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