
I'm not sure if it has hit 90 yet this year in Phoenix, but it did so today. (It's 75 right now and it's midnight.)
So this story that Arizona's temps have risen more in the last five years than anywhere else comes as no surprise.
It would be humorous briefly to ask if the 200 square miles of now broken ice shelf off the coast of Antarctic could make it's way inland just a little. The importance of the break up, is that when it does the pressure holding back ice and glacier flow off the land is less. This accelerates ice erosion and melting. That on a grand scale can raise the ocean level, while the ice shelf breaking up and melting cannot because it was already in the water.
Posted by Temple at March 28, 2008 11:29 PM