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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
If you like this thread, you’ll love Ian McEwan’s novel Solar, hillairious farce!!
My pea brain can't explain my truth and yours....I'm sure someone can.
From the sat photo it doesn’t look any bigger than 2 fity.
when the solid part above the surface of the scotch melts the level of liquid in the glass will rise
Sorry thats not how this works. Ice floats b/c it expanded. Simple grade school science. The level of liquid will drop. Especially when the proper etiquette is exhibited and the scotch is consumed!
Only because the one cube is resting on the other.
If they’re both floating, the level will not rise.
Im nicknaming it Rosie.
Tractor Supply...
I thought it looked a lot like a jug of gear lube. :)
almost
prolly tastes like it
Next party, freeze a bottle in a half gallon paper milk container filled with water.
To use, run under warm water a bit, peel off the paper, set it out on a plate surrounded by rock glasses. Must be emptied before ice has melted.
That photo of the 5-liter bottle of rotgut always makes me smile. After all, if it’s going to taste like windshield washer fluid or antifreeze, may as well package it appropriately.
Holy crap!
Amish/Mennonite buggy on the label?
you will notice it does NOT mention what it is blended with... 8^)
...it expands...It still weighs the same.
Water and my ex.
poor Amish, they don’t get no respect
She said she still weighed the same? :)
I meant that the researcher was looking for work because he would be fired for not spouting the usual nonsense about global warming being the cause for all things perceived as bad. Personally I love the idea of glaciers floating around. I spend a lot of time on the beaches of New Hampshire and a glacier floating by would be quite scenic.
Considering a cost benefit analysis, which is less expensive: a desalinization plant, or towing an iceberg?
“is roughly in balance with its surroundings, despite experiencing strong surface melt in summer.” What the hell does that mean?
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