Date published: 2008/02/07
The BBC says:
Two scientists have claimed that climate change was not the only cause of the collapse of a 500bn tonne ice shelf in Antarctica six years ago.
The 656ft (200m) thick, 1,255 sq mile (3,250 sq km) Larsen B shelf broke apart in March 2002.
But Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University and Ted Scambos of Colorado University claim in a new study that it had been on the brink for decades.
They argue that glaciological and atmospheric factors were also invoved.
...
He acknowledged that global warming had a major part to play in the collapse, but emphasised that it was only one of a number of contributory factors.
Did anyone ever claim there were no other "contributory factors"? This paper hardly seems like news.
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