The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, prohibits "harmful interference" with any antarctic bird or mammal.
Kind of a catch 22in this case.

When I was in Antarctica, penguins used to hop into our zodiac all the time.. it's really awkward.
..and I have no idea about the sandals, perhaps he was diving, or maybe it was a hot day.

Thanks for all your kind words

>> ^Kevlar:
Has the Sift been covered in some Antarctic police crime tape or what?

What makes you jump to that conclusion, sir? Where were you when the penguin murder was committed?


>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
Will it work if I want to remove all the unnecessary bloat on VS...e.g. like 6 of the tabs at the top????????????

Yes, you can use Stylish to hide any number of the top tabs.


>> ^Eklek:
I like it:), I just installed it..
request: can there also be a version which allows black backgrounds (of the whole site and especially the profile page (which has black letters)?)?

I'm making some different colored versions of this right now and one will be dark/black if that's what you mean.

Has the Sift been covered in some Antarctic police crime tape or what?

Nice design.

so when all the ice goes away and the entire antarctic land mass is exposed think of the boon to real estate developers! Be the 1st to own a timeshare in the South Pole!

I read in a newspaper article in my local paper that some researcher who has been studying the decay of the antarctic ice shelves said they projected this particular shelf to break apart 15 years from now.

You know what this means? WE COULD BE MUCH CLOSER TO THE SUN GOING BOOM-BOOM THAN WE THOUGHT!

Scientists capture giant Antarctic sea creatures (Mon Feb 18, 2008)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSYD3465

silvercord
From NASA:

Most places on the globe have warmed in recent decades, with the greatest warming at high latitudes in the Arctic Ocean, Alaska, Siberia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Most ocean areas have warmed. Climatologists say that warming is not due to local effects of heat pollution in urban areas, a point demonstrated by warming in remote areas far from major cities.

QFT

From NASA:

Most places on the globe have warmed in recent decades, with the greatest warming at high latitudes in the Arctic Ocean, Alaska, Siberia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Most ocean areas have warmed. Climatologists say that warming is not due to local effects of heat pollution in urban areas, a point demonstrated by warming in remote areas far from major cities.

from reading Scott and the Antarctic.. I discovered that in the last century nobody knew the cause of scurvy . They didn't know it was caused by lack of vitamin C in the diet. cells cannot regenerate properly without vitamin C.

In 1903, the first voyage of scott to antarctic exprienced scurvy and they found that by eating raw seal meat the symptoms were cured or at least helped.

I have a feeling this is important to note.

Seriously Slyrr, every time you post you manage to reach new intellectual lows.

I won't address your moonbat theories, since obviously you show large favoritism towards big business that is more willing to rape America for a dollar then give a shit about it's future generations. Instead we'll look at your so called "facts".

Clearly you didn't read the paper that you simply link to, because if you did you would know that Micheal Crichton comments were on that belief in purported scientific theories without a factual basis is more akin to faith than science. That is true and I agree with that, what you fail to mention is that the speech was delivered in 2003. Nearly 4 years ago.

Why did Crichton do it? He had a book called State of Fear. Many of Crichton's publicly expressed views, particularly on subjects like the global warming controversy, have caused heated debate. An example is meteorologist Jeffrey Masters' review of State of Fear:

"Flawed or misleading presentations of Global Warming science exist in the book, including those on Arctic sea ice thinning, correction of land-based temperature measurements for the urban heat island effect, and satellite vs. ground-based measurements of Earth's warming. I will spare the reader additional details. On the positive side, Crichton does emphasize the little-appreciated fact that while most of the world has been warming the past few decades, most of Antarctica has seen a cooling trend. The Antarctic ice sheet is actually expected to increase in mass over the next 100 years due to increased precipitation, according to the IPCC. Additionally, Crichton points out that there has been no rise in hurricane activity in the Atlantic over the past few decades (a point unchanged by the record four hurricanes that struck Florida in 2004)."

However, 28 hurricanes and tropical storms took place in the 2005 season, which was 7 more than the meteorologists had names for because historically, 21 names seemed far above what was needed for a season. In addition, Peter Doran, author of the paper in the January 2002 issue of Nature which reported the finding referred to above, that some areas of Antarctica had cooled between 1986 and 2000, wrote an opinion piece in the July 27, 2006 New York Times in which he stated "Our results have been misused as 'evidence' against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel State of Fear".

Crichton has also been criticized for having the protagonist of State of Fear assert,

"Since the ban of DDT, two million people a year have died unnecessarily from malaria, mostly children. The ban has caused more than fifty million needless deaths. Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler."

Even though the DDT ban specifically exempts any and all use for disease prevention from any regulation, and even though the total number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the period described is actually less than fifty million. None of it is true. USAID, the World Bank, and WHO, all fund DDT for malaria prevention.

Please next time find out what you are talking about before posting.

Yes, we all know it's propaganda. Here's one of the scientists whose work was quoted in this ad calling shenanigans on the ad:

"But a scientist whose report about the Antarctic ice-sheet is featured in the adverts has denounced the CEI and said they have quoted his study out of context.

Professor Curt Davis of the University of Missouri-Columbia, said: "I think they are confusing and misleading the public."

Asked if he doubted the evidence of global warming, he replied: "Personally, I have no doubts whatsoever." Mr Davis's June 2005 study examined the ice-sheets of east Antarctic which showed an increase in mass.

However, he said his study did not look at coastal areas which are known to be losing ice and said the "fact that the interior ice sheet is growing is a predicted consequence of global warming".

- http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article571678.ece
25 May 2006