Posted on 01/06/2017 3:49:11 PM PST by tired&retired
An icy thread measuring a mere 12 miles (20 kilometers) long is all that's anchoring a massive iceberg the size of Delaware to its home in West Antarctica, climate scientists report.
If the iceberg breaks away — an event known as calving — the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica will lose more than 10 percent of its area, which amounts to about 2,000 square miles (5,000 square km), according to Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research project based in the United Kingdom.
MIDAS researchers noticed the rift in 2014, and have used satellite and other data to monitor it ever since. The rift made headlines late last year when NASA's IceBridge mission snapped a photo showing the eerily immense crack, which measured 70 miles (112 km) long, more than 300 feet (91 meters) wide and about one-third of a mile (0.5 km) deep as of Nov. 10, 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Nuke it. Just a thought.
There were stories about “Delaware-sized” ice floes breaking away from Antarctica in World Book encyclopedia literally a half-century ago.
LiveScience.com = fake news
And why am I suppose to care?
-Oh yea, global warming... got it.
I will try to remind myself of that while I shovel the snow off my roof to keep it from collapsing.
Maybe we can trade Delaware for Larsen C.
Let's believe in global warming, but if so, let's close our eyes and really believe.
It’s summer time down there - of course it’s more likely to break off this time of year than any other.
FAKE NEWS!
No wonder Iran wants to build nuclear powered tow-boats...
I think it would be a good idea for Greenpeace to tow it to the Arctic Ocean for the polar bears to hang out on.
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