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	Commanders Post at The Warpath > Off-Topic Discussion > Parking Lot > Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica PDA Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica Pages : [1] 2 MTK 02-26-2010, 02:55 PM BBC World Service - News - Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100226_iceberg_wt_sl.shtml) Scientists say a vast iceberg weighing billions of tonnes which broke off the Antarctic continent this month poses a potential threat to the circulation of the world's oceans. Trample the Elderly 02-26-2010, 02:59 PM Antarctica was mapped by ancient men without the layer of ice. Don't believe the hype. Longtimefan 02-26-2010, 03:12 PM A sign of things to come. over the mountain 02-26-2010, 03:30 PM these ice bergs breakin off not only cause problems with the current of the ocean (which effects everything) but whole populations/species of penguins, etc end up dying because their generations old migration routes are all screwed up and they are left isolated and starving. i watched a show where a biologist type guy would visit these same type of penguins every year during teh time when the weather would allow.every year, when he would get there the thousands of penguins would be grazing on a certain shore. one year he heard about major ice bergs breaking off, i think an earthquake as well. when he went back there where no penguins on a shore where there should have been thousands. he goes inland to find them, finds that the landscape had changed, found hundreds of dead or dying penguins trapped half way thru their migration route. he did not intervene, a whole species of penguin who had lived there for as long as time where wiped off the planet due to climate changes. tryfuhl 02-26-2010, 03:34 PM waiting on the global warming argument MTK 02-26-2010, 03:39 PM waiting on the global warming argument I really just thought it was fascinating to see an iceberg that huge break off... but yeah I'm anticipating the armchair scientists to throw down any second. htownskinfan 02-26-2010, 04:02 PM yeah,it couldnt be global warming,I'm sure the ice just got so cold it broke off SmootSmack 02-26-2010, 04:05 PM yeah,it couldnt be global warming,I'm sure the ice just got so cold it broke off Happy Early Birthday (how's life without Tracy?) Ruhskins 02-26-2010, 04:39 PM Maybe the iceberg can play nose tackle for us. Lotus 02-26-2010, 04:50 PM yeah,it couldnt be global warming,I'm sure the ice just got so cold it broke off Al Gore broke it off to support his myth of global warming.