Posted on 10/01/2019 4:21:12 PM PDT by RightGeek
The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years.
The calved block covers 1,636 sq km in area - a little smaller than Scotland's Isle of Skye - and is called D28.
The scale of the berg means it will have to be monitored and tracked because it could in future pose a hazard to shipping.
Not since the early 1960s has Amery calved a bigger iceberg. That was a whopping 9,000 sq km in area.
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The Scripps researcher stressed that there was no link between this event and climate change. Satellite data since the 1990s has shown that Amery is roughly in balance with its surroundings, despite experiencing strong surface melt in summer.
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The level always went down when I drink scotch.
You load 315 billions tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Where do you get that? The Farm and Ranch Store?
The idea that this is unusual is ridiculous.
Ah, yes - a rocket engine attached to an iceberg with 1/4" cables and aluminum tent pegs. My dad got a real laugh out of that.
I believe Saudi Arabia was considering the same thing back in the early 1970s.
‘Weekly Reader’
Rounding. Leftists and this math thing.
'Cause a calving glacier indicates a growing (healthy) glacier.
Ice can extend only so far into ocean/sea before it is required to break off due to current forces and the force of the glacier pushing ice further into the ocean/sea.
Mighty fine Scotch you got there, Lou... Aged, what, 20 minutes?
Who likes ice?
Ruins the scotch
I believe the magazine was POPULAR MECHANICS or POPULAR SCIENCE.
Ice still waters it down. So I keep my scotch in the freezer.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat, right?
“In my glass, the scotch always seems to be gone before the ice melts.
Who bothers with ice?”
Hell, who bothers with the glass?
Priorities People
Priorities
We must not allow a Scotch Whisky Gap.
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If that’s a single-malt — then, that’s the very definition of water pollution.
Uhm, no...
Water EXPANDS when it freezes. By about 10%. It's why a can of soda in a freezer will burst. Since a cube of frozen water DISPLACES less of a volume of water than it weighs, it floats. That's why 10% of a cube sticks out of the water.
...how many tugs...to pull a 1600 square mile iceberg? About 2x what is needed to pull this one which is 750 sqm iceberg.
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