If leftists think that global warming is real, why did that ship in the Antartic hit an iceberg last week?

Question

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112300189.html

It just makes no sense what the anti-global warming crowd says. If the ship sank from hitting an iceberg, how can this be, since libs make it very clear that the ice is melting so fast. Even if it was true, we could definitely benefit from this anyway because we wouldn't really have this problem any more.

Answer 1

Because, if you knew anything about icebergs, you'd know that there are more of them BECAUSE of global warming.



Now, run along and leave the science to scientists.

Answer 2

Or perhaps the iceberg was there because global warming causes ice shelves to collapse from the ice caps.



Global warming is fact. The debate is about whether it has been caused by human activity.



And it's spelled Antarctic.

Answer 3

Because more and more pieces of the Antarctic are melting and breaking off. It's BECAUSE of global warming that that ship hit an iceberg.



An iceberg the size of DELAWARE broke off of the failing ice sheet a few years ago.

Answer 4

An iceberg is created when a piece of ice breaks free and falls into the ocean...thanks for proving that global warming exists.

Answer 5

Your education must have been abruptly cut short. Take an ice cube out of the freezer and time how long it takes to melt at room temp. Now imagine it is a ten billion times larger. Get it? If not see "geological timescale".

Answer 6

I don't think it is a political issue but a global one that affects all living creatures on the planet.



Sir David Attenborough has already delivered his message from his view point and it will be too late if you are only convinced it is happening when it is too hot to go outside after 10 am.



View some stories from a Great friend of the Earth here:



http://www.google.com/search?q=David+Attenborough's+view+on+global+warming&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7SKPB

Answer 7

One really has nothing to do with the other. If we are in a normal cycle of global warming, that doesn't mean all the icebergs vanish.



Also, even if all the ice melted, we wouldn't have the floods predicted by the nay sayers. Fill your glass with ice and water. Does it overflow when the ice melts?

Answer 8

The ice in the polar regions melts every summer, this time of year in the southern hemisphere, so icebergs are to be expected and this is nothing to do with any unnatural phenomena. As to global warming it is just a government scam to increase tax and by scientists to increase spending on their projects which are of little value to the public.



I suspect that the vessel sank because someone was not paying attention.

Answer 9

Very funny. Please read something about global warming before claiming that all ice would melt as soon as the Earth's average temperature increases by 1 or 2 degrees.

Answer 10

Global warming causes ice sheets to melt and break off and form more icebergs.



Surely you are educated enough to already know that.

Answer 11

Are you playing dumb and dumber. Put you crayons down and do some reading of stuff without the pictures. It will take until 2040 for the ice cap to melt, and probably before then you will learn something...anything.

Answer 12

what a simple way of looking at things. no one says that there is no ice. just that its breaking up and melting at a faster rate. if fact, if you were able to get your head out of your behind you would realize that the reason the ship hit the ice is because it is melting and breaking up and it is floating to places it isn't usually encountered. .. but that would require thought on your part and hate and thought are never in the same head.

Answer 13

Your argument does not stand up as the iceberg in question could have started out as being 50 times larger, no one knows.

Answer 14

You could argue that the iceberg was caused by global warming, in that it would still be stuck to the mainland if it wasnt for global warming.... personally I think the ship accident was caused by poor ship driving

Answer 15

a ship hit an iceberg therefore climate change is not occurring



I bow to your superior logic skills Sherlock

Answer 16

Because the Captain was a lousy driver.

Maybe.

The Captain was in denial and refused to see the iceberg for the trees.

Maybe.

Answer 17

Ablation of glaciers is exemplified by the production of ice bergs calving from the ice mass. Increased ablation = the generation of these features. You ought to research before you post.

Answer 18

Maybe there was an iceberg where they aren't normally *because* of global warming?

Answer 19

You do know that there are consvative parties in Europe that have policies on reducing global warming. so are they all nuts like us liberials as well.

Answer 20

Who said all the icebergs were gone?

Answer 21

Oh, there are still icebergs out there? Well, that must prove that global warming isn't real. What was I thinking?!

Answer 22

how did a piece of antartica end up floating in the ocean? global warming. hmmm.

Answer 23

Because Owl Gore said so, just like his favorite bed time story,...chicken little







The sky is falling oh my

Answer 24

"Global warming is real"

-George W. Bush-

Some may deny that man is the cause but, how can anyone deny that man is compounding and, exacerbating the problem.

Answer 25

There is some ice left. It hasn't all melted, yet. But it will.

Answer 26

Surely you cannot be this stupid and have lived long enough to learn to type.

Answer 27

everyone was asleep.. obviously they didn't know the titanic story

Answer 28

beacause global warming is a gradual process.

Answer 29

That is like saying it is real because the sun is shinning. Damn it man!

Answer 30

Sorry, this is ridiculous. And I'm not even a liberal.

Answer 31

its the last icecube left in the world!!

Answer 32

You're very funny...

Answer 33

god made man, man made global warming, it made man mad

Answer 34

BUSH DID IT!!!!!!!