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Message: Losing The Ayles Ice Shelf NASA’s www.visibleearth.nasa.gov web site has some good supplemental information and satellite images on the Ayles Ice Shelf. Just in case you have been too busy with family this holiday season, it was reported yesterday that a large section of this shelf broke off 16 months ago. NASA writes: The Arctic’s largest ice shelf is breaking up. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is a remnant of the compacted snow and ancient sea ice that extended along the northern shores of Ellesmere Island in Northern Canada until the early twentieth century. Rising temperatures have reduced the original shelf into a number of smaller shelves, the largest of which was the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on the northwest fringe of the island. The fracturing of Canada’s ice shelves is blamed on global warming. A quick review of the world’s press illustrates that an event that takes place in Canada’s north is of interest to other nations too. Even Australia picked up the story: TORONTO: A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic ice shelf. The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, 800km south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada’s remote north. Events like this are so far removed from our every day lives that they are quickly forgotten in spite of the “canary in a coal mine” message they send. Our job is to make the systemic changes required to reduce global warming and stop these dramatic changes to the environment. www.corporateknightsforum.com