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- kmotiv1, on 04/19/2008, -7/+19Let me guess. Large hole in bottom of lake? Am I right? Am I right?
- elasticsoul, on 04/19/2008, -0/+10"a huge crack or "moulin" (from the French for mill) opened up in the ice which allowed about 11.6 billion gallons of water to flow down to the bedrock in under 24 hours."
Holy. Moly. - bphicke, on 04/19/2008, -4/+8Few people argue that there is not climate change. The argument is the assumption that we caused it.
- wrathchilde, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3This is very cool. Ice dams and catastrophic discharges from ponded meltwater have formed many surface features, the Columbia River Gorge being the most famous. Recent mapping of the English Channel also seems to show indicative features.
- orion846, on 04/19/2008, -0/+3it was the water thieves. apparently adam west's plant and sink weren't enough for their insatiable hunger anymore
- cowsgonemadd3, on 04/19/2008, -1/+4And me without my inner tube!
- 3rdDay, on 04/19/2008, -0/+2One of those events would be terrifying to witness if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The power of nature humbles man. This was quite a balanced piece which the Independent, with it's increasingly strident tone and penchant for megaphone journalism seems less and less able to produce. I used to really like the Indy as well. :(
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Nothing new in the northern hemisphere.
BTW it is well known that ice liquefies at a well defined transition pressure.
So all such ice damns fail when the water level reaches a certain height..... - OdinEye, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Before you can get to that you have to re-arrange all of the deck chairs.
- frosted, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1I was thirsty.
- btattersall, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Anyone else getting the feeling that trying to stop climate change is going to be like patching up the Titanic after the band have packed it in?
- StealthX, on 04/19/2008, -1/+2Nice try, Butters...
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1These guys need to get out a little more often, maybe spend a year or two up North. Ice melts, water runs through cracks, yadda, yadda, yadda.
- viclazlo, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1so - i someone were relatively smart - they could suck up all this glacial melt and package it in glass bottles and sell it for $15/liter.
stop a glacier's migration! buy our expensive glacial h20! - rodrigo74, on 04/19/2008, -1/+2Oh darn, I was planning to use this "disappearing lake" thing on next Sunday's sermon...
- Nhmarine, on 04/19/2008, -0/+0LMAO!!!!!
- ImYourRealDad, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1Come on now...every one of us conjured up what that must have really looked like: nature's vag.
- novaneil, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.
- Nubli, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1Hmm, this global warming thing strikes again.
- Shakermaker, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1Now you know how Stedman feels when he has sex with Oprah.
- inactive, on 04/19/2008, -2/+2I imagine myself under cracks all the time.
- Owwmykneecap, on 04/19/2008, -1/+1...and how come Batman doesn't dance anymore?
- Nhmarine, on 04/19/2008, -0/+0lmao
- Nhmarine, on 04/19/2008, -3/+1wow, that is a huge amount of water... could you imagine being under that crack....
- mardock, on 04/19/2008, -6/+4This is the real reason...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-Z4zckYNs
xD - alexanEmpire, on 04/19/2008, -3/+1Lets do it in the butt!
- mwrl, on 04/19/2008, -8/+3Oh no evil global warming again!
- bromac, on 04/19/2008, -11/+4Yes, you're right. This is not good.
All that water flowing to the bedrock gives the ice shelves some lubrication so they can slip off into the sea. This has been seen in some of the Antarctic ice shelf collapses as well. It does not bode well for the stability of the Greenland ice shelves.
If you don't think there's some sort of climate change going on, you're blind. We're talking about square miles of ice shelves just packing up at relatively the same time. You can't get a bigger or more tangible sign than that. - alexanEmpire, on 04/19/2008, -10/+1I said what what? In the butt!
- Chimbles, on 04/19/2008, -9/+0Sorry kmotiv!
- joe361, on 04/19/2008, -13/+1That's nothing, http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh
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