[dsrtsage]

“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.

[Ciaphas Cain]

My thoughts exactly. It's a vast sheet of ice pulled on by forces we can't begin to artificially induce. Sooner or later the stresses are going to find and overwhelm the weak spots. Just as with anything else with a solid crystalline structure.

That it's breaking off and away is a GOOD sign, methinks. It was GROWING and is still growing from accumulation of ice. It's not simply melting and fading away.