Comments on: Ice island breaks off Arctic shelf http://www.davejustus.com/2006/12/29/ice-island-breaks-off-arctic-shelf/ None Sine Causa Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:36:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dave Justus http://www.davejustus.com/2006/12/29/ice-island-breaks-off-arctic-shelf/#comment-5827 Dave Justus Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:03:40 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/12/29/ice-island-breaks-off-arctic-shelf/#comment-5827 Perhaps, but if the public continues to be poorly informed about the issue, I don't think we will end up with very good policy results. Perhaps, but if the public continues to be poorly informed about the issue, I don’t think we will end up with very good policy results.

]]> By: Patrick Lightbody http://www.davejustus.com/2006/12/29/ice-island-breaks-off-arctic-shelf/#comment-5784 Patrick Lightbody Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:06:28 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/12/29/ice-island-breaks-off-arctic-shelf/#comment-5784 I agree - the reporting of this event was fairly poor. Descriptions like "11,000 football fields" don't really provide any relative size. On top of that, it wasn't clear the event actually happened almost 2 years ago. That said, just because the reporting is poor and that there are political people talking about the problem doesn't make the problem any less severe. The good news is that I think 2006 has become _the_ year that we'll look back and remember as the year that climate control became a real issue that everyone was concerned about, so I guess that's a good thing. I agree - the reporting of this event was fairly poor. Descriptions like “11,000 football fields” don’t really provide any relative size. On top of that, it wasn’t clear the event actually happened almost 2 years ago.

That said, just because the reporting is poor and that there are political people talking about the problem doesn’t make the problem any less severe. The good news is that I think 2006 has become _the_ year that we’ll look back and remember as the year that climate control became a real issue that everyone was concerned about, so I guess that’s a good thing.

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