weather watch: is "A DAY AFTER TOMORROW" happening

[tulisan666]

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napapansin nyu ba na lumalamig ang climate dito....

why in cold/snowy places are using artificial snow, coz kulang na raw ang snow(not cold enough)...

whats your take in this...

climate shifts perhaps??

[ernest9]

The world will not end with bang, but with a whimper.

[SamuraiArcher]

tuganw naman gyud karon panahuna...maybe its true kulang ang snow kay diri sa ato-a dili kaayo tugnaw...unlike before nga grabe ka tugnaw sa cebu....

[Bahalina-boy]

Tugnaw sad. arang2x nalang kay dili na sigeg uwan2x.

[gilbz]

Huge ice shelf breaks free in Canada's north
Reuters
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/29122006/32...a-s-north.html

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A chunk of ice bigger than the area of Manhattan broke from an ice shelf in Canada's far north and could wreak havoc if it starts to float westward towards oil-drilling regions and shipping lanes next summer, a researcher said on Friday.

Global warming could be one cause of the break of the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island, which occurred in the summer of 2005 but was only detected recently by satellite photos, said Luke Copland, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa's geography department.

It was the largest such break in nearly three decades, casting an ice floe with an area of 66 square km (25 square miles) adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said Copland, who specialises in the study of glaciers and ice masses. Manhattan has an area of 61 square km (24 square miles).

The mass is now 50 square km (19 square miles) in size.

"The Arctic is all frozen up for the winter and it's stuck in the sea ice about 50 km (30 miles) off the coast," he said.

"The risk is that next summer, as that sea ice melts, this large ice island can then move itself around off the coast and one potential path for it is to make its way westward towards the Beaufort Sea, and the Beaufort Sea is where there is lots of oil and gas exploration, oil rigs and shipping."

The break went undetected when it happened due primarily to the remoteness of the northern coast of Ellesmere island, which is only about 800 km (500 miles) from the North Pole.

The speed of the crack and drift-off shocked scientists.

Satellite images showed the 15-km long (9-mile long) crack, then the ice floating about 1 km (0.6 miles) from the coast within about an hour, Copland said.

"You could stand at one edge and not see the other side, and for something that large to move that quickly is quite amazing," he said.

Copland said the break was likely due to a combination of low accumulations of sea ice around the mass's edges as high winds blew it away, as well as one of the Arctic's warmest temperatures on record. The region was 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees F) above average in the summer of 2005, he said.

Ice shelves in Canada's far north have decreased in size by as much as 90 percent since 1906, and global warming likely played a role in the Ayles break, Copland said.

"It's hard to tie one event to climate change, but when you look at the longer-term trend, the bigger picture, we've lost a lot of ice shelves on northern Ellesmere in the past century and this is that continuing," he said. "And this is the biggest one in the last 25 years."

[Sinyalan]

Scientifically speaking... climate changes started long before machines and technology sets in. Global warming doesn't affect us... older men but our children's children. see this ad... http://youtube.com/watch?v=WtF0l-yuL6E

[tulisan666]

in fairness, ang daming theories and quite feasible/credible din available today...hehehe
chek the net or would you prefer a link?hehehe

that movie depicted only possible scenarios if and which those theories were indeed correct.

in my opinion, it could happen...in contrast sa water world future, which is more on fantasy.

[Sinyalan]

Naay movie sa una nga about nuclear holocaust unya ang tanang tawo was so desperate to survive. Mao nga partly karon sa global warming is weapons of mass destruction.

[ehcastro3]

may nabasa ako dati hindi tau papunta ng global warming kungdi global cooling...

btw kaya malamig nowadays (kahit d2 sa iligan grabe ang ginaw for what, 3 days?) may hangin amihan from siberia (so galing russia ang aircon natin hehehe) and couples with a high pressure area in china papunta d2 ang hangin...

another thing to point out is according to NATGEO's Hollywood Science a scenario like "A DAY AFTER TOMORROW" is pure fantasy...

[gilbz]

we all live on a living, "breathing" planet.

all of us living on the surface are insignificant creatures when pitted against her force during extreme weathers, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, etc. we are like "kutos" living on the head of a person clinging for dear life whenever that person decides to shampoo, blowdry his/her hair, apply hair chemicals/colors, or worst...use nizoral to get rid of pesky parasites.

the poles may shift and it will certainly spell doom to a lot of humans, animals and plant life. the entire history of civilized humans on this planet is nothing but a "geological blink of an eye" as far as the planet is concerned. cataclysmic events do not happen overnight...we may never be aware that we are already at the brink of one event that will greatly affect life on earth in the generations to come. great cataclysmic events has occured in the past, exterminating dominant life forms on the planet. it could happen again within the next few years, decades, century or so. but it will certainly happen again.

why? because we live on a living planet.

we may all be gone tomorrow...but the planet for sure will never miss us.