Ice Shelf

Uh-oh: "Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about seven times the size of Manhattan is 'hanging by a thread,' the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming." Just remember -- we can afford to pay any price for endless war in Iraq, but serious action to forestall catastrophic climate change is too expensive.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/03/ice-shelf/44035/