Antarctica melting?

[Carl Remick]

Re Doug's citations:  "'Maybe there is a threshold for warming that,
once exceeded, starts
to throw climate into a series of barrel rolls,' speculates Paul J.
Hearty,
a geologist in Nassau. 'If we continue to pump carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere, are we going to warm the earth and trigger sea level events
like those that happened 120,000 years ago?'"

Tighten those seatbelts, folks.  Here's another knuckle-whitening news
item, as reported in today's Wash. Post:  "The warming of the Earth in
this century is without precedent in at least 1,200 years and cannot be
fully explained by any known combination of natural forces ... said
Jonathan Overpeck, head of the paleoclimatology program for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [yesterday]."

Carl Remick