British scientists are reporting in the latest journal of Geology that the retreat of the Antarctic ice shelves is not a new phenomenon. From the article:
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Writing in the latest issue of the journal “Geology,” British scientists said a survey had shown that ice shelves had retreated thousands of years ago as a result of rising air and ocean temperatures. “What this tells us is that ice shelves don’t just break up because they get too big as the global warning skeptics argue,” said Dominic Hodgson, a scientist with the British Antarctic Survey and one of the leading investigators.
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