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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Massive ice sheet breaks loose in Canada

That's OK though because Palin tells us climate change is a non issue. Until the ice hockey rinks in Alaska melt, she's not buying into this half baked theory that is accepted by scientists and the world.

A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

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