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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Smith and White Star Lines vindicated, Titanic sinking blamed on global warming. |
| 2014-04-30 |
But in fact the catastrophe may have been set in motion by a warm, wet year over Greenland in 1908, resulting in greater snow accumulation. Writing in the journal Weather, Grant Bigg and David Wilton of Sheffield University explain how the snow soaked through cracks in the ice sheet, encouraging excess iceberg calving over the following few years. Soberingly, global warming has increased iceberg hazard greatly in recent decades, making years like 1912 more the norm than the exception. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 The "SS Great Eastern" hit a shoal on it's maiden trip to New York...glided over it, opening a slit in it's hull the size of the Titanic...and carried on to New York, only the crew noticing the event. Difference was Isambard Kingdom Brunel knew how to build a ship...it took three time as long to dismantle it than to build the Titanic... |
| Posted by: Hotspur666 2014-04-30 22:54 |
| #7 Soberingly, global warming has increased iceberg hazard greatly in recent decades, making years like 1912 more the norm than the exception. Really. How many hundreds of ships have been sunk by icebergs since then? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-04-30 22:31 |
| #6 Why was there global warming when the amount opf airborne plant-food was so low. I thought airborne plant-food was the magic one-way insulator that made it warmer on the side the heat isn't. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-30 17:26 |
| #5 Riiiiight.... nothing to do with the captain not being vigilant and having proper procedure for waters that were known to have icebergs... nothing to do with the subpar rivets that were weaker than normal rivets due to excess carbon slag... Seriously, this Global Warming thing is a religion to these people. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-04-30 14:59 |
| #4 iceberg calving....global warming Had to be some sort of bovine - environmental connection. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-04-30 14:57 |
| #3 Given sufficient global warming,ice bergs will finally be extinct and no longer a threat to anyone. Do it for the children! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-04-30 14:52 |
| #2 Arrest that Iceberg! Send it to Gitmo! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-04-30 14:33 |
| #1 Right. It was the iceberg's fault. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-04-30 12:43 |