[tired&retired]

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.

[BenLurkin]

Seems like this thing has been threatening to break off for about ten years now.

[tired&retired]

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.

[BipolarBob]

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.

[loucon]

Cool!

[ETL]

Has-to be the result of “man-made global warming”! Has to be.

[lurk]

When it breaks off, nothing will happen.

[DouglasKC]

If there are icebergs calving it means that the ice pack is getting bigger.

[Seaplaner]

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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[b4its2late]

Cool. (Literally)

[colorado tanker]

Hmmm. The article doesn’t mention that it’s summertime in Antarctica. Might have something to do with this.

[ETL]

[ETL]

"Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.[1] It is a form of ice ablation or ice disruption and is normally caused by the glacier expanding."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_calving

[G Larry]

They seem to have neglected to mention the geothermic activity in that region.

[Vince Ferrer]

This is a very, very deceptive article.

Once it breaks off, the iceberg isn't expected to raise sea levels, Luckman said.

True, but why? Here is the reason:

The entire Delaware sized ice sheet is already located on the top of the ocean. What happens when ice in a glass of water melts? The water level in the glass stays the same. What happens when an iceberg melts? The ocean level stays the same.

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.

How would that happen? Where did this Delaware sized ice sheet that is now on top of the ocean and won't affect water levels come from? Didn't it flow off the land? If it flowed off the land, broke off and melted in the ocean, which doesn't raise sea levels, isn't that what the ice further upstream is going to do too?

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.

Again, why would something like that happen? First of all, there is nothing being "held back." There is ice upstream from the ocean, but it is not being "held back" by the ice downstream any more than the water in the Mississippi river in St. Louis is being held back by the Mississippi water in New Orleans. All of the water in the Mississippi is moving downstream due to gravity.

Glaciers are just ice rivers that move slower than water rivers. It snows in the middle of the continent, and piles up as ice. It becomes so heavy that it begins to slide downhill. Then it slides into the ocean and melts. The melted water evaporates into clouds, goes into the continent, and snows, starting the whole cycle again. Exactly the same as a water river, just slower. The only thing that could raise the water level would be if all of the ice stored on top of Antarctica melted into the ocean, and that would take thousands of years of temperatures much warmer than global warming people are willing to predict.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Oh no, we’re all going to die! Gore was right, the sea level around the world will rise 20 meters .... woe is us!!!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Oh no, we’re all going to die! Gore was right, the sea level around the world will rise 20 meters .... woe is us!!!

[Redwood71]

I thought global warming had deteriorated the ice. Was this one shipped in from the dark side of Mercury?

red

[Don W]

Funny, I remember a similar event in 2002.

It was an algorgasmic event for the greenies, until they noticed that the ice grew back thicker!

[ZOOKER]

Travel and fishing opportunity.

[piytar]

Nuke it. Just a thought.