Visually, Anacapa Island, along with the
other Northern Channel Islands, represents a
seaward extension of the Santa Monica Mountains.
After the journal Science published a paper earlier this month concluding that summertime gushers of meltwater percolating to the base of Greenland's ice sheet didn't appear to speed the
seaward flow of ice, one result was a burst of excited comments from bloggers and
others asserting that the impacts of global warming have been hyped.