Re: Massive ice shelf collapsing off Antarctica

William Hyde <wthyde1953@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:b51ac666-c163-40d0-84c5-
fda8b864ccae@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I still don't think the Wilkins collapse is a great  thing to cite in
> and of itself as evidence of global warming.  As part of a pattern,
> though,  it makes a stronger argument, particularly
> if the rest of the shelf goes next summer.

Actually, I cited it as a way to introduce the idea of an inhabited future

Antarctica as a story idea, but that went nowhere. Future barbaric
survivors 
of some catastrophe, maybe? It would take a while to get a decent
ecosystem 
going on a thawed out Antarctica, of course.