write:” Global warming is unlikely to have been the cause. Goredoes not explain that the ice shelves have melted before as studies of seabed sediments have shown. The AntarcticPeninsu

000 years has occurred in the absence of any sea-level or temperature forcing. In mostof Antarctica
the ice is in fact growing thicker. Mean Antarctic temperature has actually fallen throughout the past half-century. In some Antarctic glens
environmental damage has been caused by temperature decreases of up to 2degrees Celsius. Antarctic sea-ice spread to a 30-year record extent in late 2007. ERROR 25Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves breaking up Gore says half a dozen ice shelves each “larger than Rhode Island” have broken up and vanished from the AntarcticPeninsula recently
implicitly because of “global warming.” Global warming is unlikely to have been the cause. Goredoes not explain that the ice shelves have melted before
as studies of seabed sediments have shown. The AntarcticPeninsula accounts for about 2% of the continent
in most of which the ice is growing thicker. All the recently-meltedshelves
added together
amount to an area less than one-fifty-fifth the size of Texas. ERROR 26Larsen B Ice Shelf broke up because of