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Delaware-Size Iceberg Is About to Break Off from Antarctica
LiveScience.com ^ | January 6, 2017 | Laura Geggel

Posted on 01/06/2017 3:49:11 PM PST by tired&retired

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However, the rift has worsened since November, Project MIDAS announced yesterday (Jan. 5).

"After a few months of steady, incremental advance since the last event, the rift grew suddenly by a further 18 km [11 miles] during the second half of December 2016," MIDAS researchers wrote in a blog post. "Only a final 20 km of ice now connects an iceberg one quarter the size of Wales to its parent ice shelf."

Once it breaks off, the iceberg isn't expected to raise sea levels, Luckman said. But if the shelf continues to fall apart, then the glaciers that flow off the land might have an impact on sea levels, he told the BCC.

Estimates show that if all of the ice held back by the Larsen C Ice Shelf were to enter the sea, global oceans could rise by 4 inches (10 centimeters), the BBC reported.

1 posted on 01/06/2017 3:49:11 PM PST by tired&retired
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Seems like this thing has been threatening to break off for about ten years now.


2 posted on 01/06/2017 3:50:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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A huge crack can be seen in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf in this aerial image snapped on Nov. 10, 2016, as part of NASA's IceBridge mission.

3 posted on 01/06/2017 3:51:23 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Evacuate Miami! Evacuate New York! Everyone inland. It will be cataclysmic! OR it will be the same ol’ Climate Change scam they have been trying to perpetrate on us ever since they $melled money.


4 posted on 01/06/2017 3:52:46 PM PST by BipolarBob (I thought money was burning a hole in my pocket but it was just my Samsung Galaxy 7.)
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To: tired&retired

Cool!


5 posted on 01/06/2017 3:53:55 PM PST by loucon
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This will be the third one to break off. This is Larson C. Larson A & B already went.

Per the article:

“It’s possible that Larsen C will follow in the same footsteps as Larsen B, which disintegrated in 2002 after a similar rifting event, according the Project MIDAS blog. The Larsen A Ice Shelf disintegrated in 1995.”


6 posted on 01/06/2017 3:54:59 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Estimates show that if all of the ice held back by the Larsen C Ice Shelf were to enter the sea, global oceans could rise by 4 inches (10 centimeters), the BBC reported.


7 posted on 01/06/2017 3:55:37 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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BipolarBob, you must have convinced your wife that 4 inches is much bigger than reality..


8 posted on 01/06/2017 3:58:05 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Yes, evacuate, evacuate! Everybody head for the hills! Doom! Danger Will Robinson!!!


9 posted on 01/06/2017 3:58:22 PM PST by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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Has-to be the result of “man-made global warming”! Has to be.


10 posted on 01/06/2017 4:06:10 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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i appreciate the warning.

I will now stay clear of the ocean around Antarctica, and tell my family to do the same.


11 posted on 01/06/2017 4:06:35 PM PST by PGR88
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When it breaks off, nothing will happen.


12 posted on 01/06/2017 4:07:53 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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Who cares (except maybe for some weirdo penguins)?
13 posted on 01/06/2017 4:12:28 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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Who cares (except maybe for some weirdo penguins)?
14 posted on 01/06/2017 4:12:28 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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If there are icebergs calving it means that the ice pack is getting bigger.


15 posted on 01/06/2017 4:16:05 PM PST by DouglasKC
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Calving is different from melting.

One most strongly suspects that calving can happen as a consequence of an ice shelf growing. (Perhaps an iceshelfologist can confirm this suspicion?

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16 posted on 01/06/2017 4:16:50 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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Great, now this natural occurrence will be the "Proof" the warmunists needed to "prove" their bogus "theory".

And they'll be out front and loud about it:

"SEE....SEE....we told you so!"

*Groan*

17 posted on 01/06/2017 4:19:04 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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Cool. (Literally)


18 posted on 01/06/2017 4:20:04 PM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: hal ogen
(except maybe for some weirdo penguins)?


19 posted on 01/06/2017 4:21:20 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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Ah, thank you.


20 posted on 01/06/2017 4:22:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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