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December 30, 2006

and Global Warming "needs more study". Riiiiiight......

Apparently, a giant ice shelf has snapped loose in the Arctic:
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.

The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north.

Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake.

Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, travelled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.

"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said today.

In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.

The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometres away picked up tremors from it.

The Ayles Ice Shelf, roughly 66 square kilometres in area, was one of six major ice shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic.

Atually, my favorite quote in the entire article is "the remaining ice shelves are 90 per cent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906." Boggles the mind. Yet more signs....

December 06, 2006

shifting again

So tonight I did two things: first, I fixed the laptop power cable (not a complete fix, more like get some more life out of it for a while... but I'm confident I can solder it for a complete fix, after a quick trip to radio shack).

Second, I launched the new freakwitch.net tonight, so I've been hacking WordPress a bit.

Also, the EP is finished, so go check it out. You can get it from the website above, or go to our MySpace page.

I can feel things shifting again....