Posted on 05/12/2015 6:08:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Ice tongues and glaciers are SUPPOSED to break off and eventually melt. Its what disgusts me most about the lying liberal progressives on this issue...As if the ice is supposed to stay in current shape and size and never move or go away or recede or grow. Utter garbage, Having bee flying to the arctic and Antarctic for over 20 years I have an idea about this issue...they...have a religion about it NOT an honest viewpoint.
The shelves break up when pressure from the glaciers pushing into the water forces them out from land and breaks them up.
I’m saying this with my tongue in cheek - but ...
The furthest edge of the current Antarctic sea ice extent is 58-59 degrees south latitude at its maximum in mid-September. Cape Horn is at 56 south latitude, so the “average” edge of the Antarctic ice pack “only” has to go another 2 degrees latitude to close the strait to commercial traffic - not ice breakers of course.
Unlikely? Of course. The peninsula curves towards South America, but the ice at that closest spot tends to flow to the east and so the actual maximum area is a bit east of the straits. probably will stay that way. But it is fun to bug the CAGW crowd with that question.
(At Antarctic minimum, the Antarctic sea ice is just at the Antarctic circle at 66-67 south latitude. Arctic sea ice is all between 72 north and the pole. Except for Hudson Bay and the Bering Sea - both very small compared to the Arctic. )
Eet is Zorro
I wonder if they understand that even sub-freezing ice will evaporate as the cold, dry wind passes over it....
Are the seas warming the ice or is the ice cooling the seas? Hmmmm...
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