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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 12:25 PM
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New Island Discovered In Greenland After Ice Sheet Retreats - "Warming Island" Is New Name
A new island has been discovered in the Arctic after rising temperatures melted the giant ice sheet which covered it.

The rocky mass - dubbed Warming Island - lies 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland, reports The Sun.

It was found by US explorer Dennis Schmitt, 60, and is seen as further proof of global warming.

Danish mapping expert Hans Jepsen said: "It was clearly detached from the mainland when the connecting glacier-bridge retreated southward."

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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2291294.html
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 12:30 PM
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1. Warming Island?
That would actually be funny if it wasn't so frightening. :cry:
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-17-07 01:24 PM
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2. is it gonna' eventually be submerged when all the ice melts?
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