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In The News 43 In The News 43 Melting ice cap INVESEC Melting ice cap potential for the entire ice sheet to collapse. INVESEC Dr Corell said: "These earthquakes are triggering earthquakes not dangerous in themselves but the fact that triggering earthquakes they are happening shows that events are Our teams of former Police and Military and The Greenland ice cap is melting so happening far faster than we ever anticipated." security personnel have developed an quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as [] excellent reputation for their ethical and pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size Cops go out on a limb professional approach to Process Serving, break off. Cops go out on a limb Investigations and Security. Scientists monitoring events this for amputee summer say the acceleration could be for amputee Invesec is a progressive and a "Full Service" catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make provider with fully qualified consultants who predictions this February by the MIAMI (Reuters) - A man whose perform a variety of criminal, civil, private, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far amputated, embalmed leg was sold at a North industrial and commercial consultations. too low. Carolina auction will get the limb back over the The glacier at Ilulissat, which objections of the buyer, who wanted to include Affirmative action requires knowing and supposedly spawned the iceberg that sank the it in a macabre, money-making Halloween understanding the entire scenario and having Titantic, is now flowing three times faster into display, police said on Thursday. the experience, the means and the ability to the sea than it was 10 years ago. The dispute over the leg John Wood lost bring every project to a successful conclusion. Robert Corell, chairman of the Arctic in an airplane crash three years ago was Climate Impact Assessment, said in Ilulissat apparently resolved when police decided the Meeting this demand is the primary service yesterday: "We have seen a massive buyer, Shannon Whisnant, had given up offered Internationally by Invesec. acceleration of the speed with which these ownership by calling authorities and asking glaciers are moving into the sea. The ice is them to take it away. For a "no-nonsense" approach to Process moving at 2 metres an hour on a front 5km [3 "The simple fact is that he said he didn't Serving and consultations and to get results, miles] long and 1,500 metres deep. That means want it," said Capt. Tracy Ledford of the let Invesec assist you. that this one glacier puts enough fresh water Maiden Police Department, who chuckled his into the sea in one year to provide drinking way through an interview about the case that With the right tools and attitude everything is water for a city the size of London for a year." has made for lively gossip in the small North possible. He is visiting Greenland as part of a Carolina town. symposium of religious, scientific, and political "The guy don't have a leg to stand on," For a Confidential consultation, Information leaders to look at the problems of the island, Ledford said. "He's not getting the leg back." or Assistance send an E-mail to Invesec - which has an ice cap 3km thick containing Wood, 42, kept the embalmed leg info@invesec.com or enough water to raise worldwide sea levels by because he wanted it to be cremated with him Call Toll Free 1-866-447-0565 seven metres. when he dies. He stored it in a small barbecue Yesterday Christian, Shia, Sunni, Hindu, smoker in a Maiden storage unit, but failed to Offices in Orangeville, Kitchener, Hamilton, Shinto, Buddhist and Jewish religious leaders keep up the unit's rent, police said. St. Catharines, Brampton and Mississauga took a boat to the tongue of the glacier for a The storage company auctioned the silent prayer for the planet. They were invited smoker on September 25 and Whisnant was the Call Toll Free - 1-866-447-0565 by Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of 250 buyer. million Orthodox Christians worldwide. When he found the leg, he called police Dr Corell, director of the global change and said he "wanted to get rid of it," but later ADVERTISING ON programme at the Heinz Centre in Washington, decided to make some money from it, Ledford THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW said the estimates of sea level rise in the IPCC said. THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW report were based on data two years old. The "He wanted to show this thing at and predicted rise this century was 20-60cm (about Halloween and charge money to see it," he said. THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER 8-24ins) , but it would be at the upper end of this Whisnant told local media he was Really Works! range at a minimum, he said, and some believed willing to go to court to keep the leg and it could be two metres. This would be planned to charge admission to see it -- $3 for The Proof is that you are reading our Ad catastrophic for European coastlines. adults and $1 for children. right now! He had flown over the Ilulissat glacier "It's a hell of a conversation piece," he and "seen gigantic holes in it through which told the Greenville News. "I bought it. It's To Advertise Your Product and Reach Our swirling masses of melt water were falling. I mine." [] World Wide Audience, Call Us Today at first looked at this glacier in the 1960s and there (905) 575-5916 were no holes. These so-called moulins, 10 to Dog Trapped For Dog Trapped For 1 1 or 15 metres across, have opened up all over the Week Rescued After E-mail admin@rel-mar.com. place. There are hundreds of them." Week Rescued After This melt water was pouring through to Falling Down 20-Foot Falling Down 20-Foot the bottom of the glacier creating a lake 500 Well metres deep which was causing the glacier "to Well float on land. These melt-water rivers are lubricating the glacier, like applying oil to a surface and causing it to slide into the sea. It is MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- A Marion County causing a massive acceleration which could be catastrophic." dog is recovering Thursday morning, after being rescued from a 20-foot well. The glacier is now moving at 15km a year into the sea although in surges it moves A neighbor on Northeast 21st Court, in Citra, even faster. He measured one surge at 5km in 90 called code enforcement when the dog barked minutes - an extraordinary event. Veli Kallio, a Finnish scientist, said the for a week straight. Fire rescue found 'Lucky', a quakes were triggered because ice had broken stray dog, trapped in a well. away after being fused to the rock for hundreds Lucky was safely pulled out and was being of years. The quakes were not vast - on a magnitude of 1 to 3 - but had never happened treated for dehydration. Soon, Lucky will be available for adoption to a good home. [] before in north-west Greenland and showed
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