Posted on 07/06/2017 12:16:11 PM PDT by rktman
Antarctica is set to lose a gigantic chunk of ice as scientists fear a 100-mile crack along the Larsen C ice shelf is about to give way.
They have been observing the progress of the crack for months and the latest reports say there is only three miles of ice left connecting shelf together.
When it breaks apart, the newly formed iceberg will measure around 2,500 square miles - roughly the size of the county of Devon - and contain three trillion tonnes of ice. It will be one of the largest icebergs ever recorded and will drift through the Weddell Sea south of the tip of South America.
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IOW - This sometimes happens...
Do the hocus pocus and turn your economy down, that’s what it’s all about.
We’re all gonna drown!
That’s some S-E-Xy ice in that glass on the right.
Quick, call Qatar.
Or was it the UAE?
5.56mm
well then Guam will tip over...again...
People on Guam will begin to look like contestants in a massive team log rolling contest.
Gin and Tonic was my first thought also.
I see it! It makes me want gin.
Is it too early to start planting wheat in Antarctica to help stop starvation around the world?
No more like contestants and winners in a contest to hold your breathe underwater for a really really long time
:)
Oh, wait...they mean the British county of Devon. At first I thought they meant a Devon cat.
I remember those days and those advertisements with hidden persuaders in them.
Having originated from what are now Philly suburbs, I immediately thought of the small village on the tony Main Line named Devon. It’s home to about 1,500 residents of which about 90 per cent are lily white. Its main claim to fame is its annual horse show. And it is contained in about 6/10 of a square mile, or, 384 acres more or less +/-. Still and all, a fair amount of ice.
My first thought was of the Titanic.
“Antarctica is set to lose a gigantic chunk of ice as scientists fear a 100-mile crack along the Larsen C ice shelf is about to give way.”
What about a natural process that has been happening for billions of years is it that so frightens these scientists? This calving happens when an ice sheet floating on water that rises and falls several feet every day finally grows large enough that the stress of rising and falling every cracks it. It has nothing to do with temperature other than it needs to be cold enough to grow the ice out far enough to cantiliever the heck out of it.
Oh dear, my first though was of a margarita. :)
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