Posted on 12/18/2023 9:46:23 AM PST by yesthatjallen
One of the world’s largest and oldest icebergs is on the move after being grounded for over three decades, symbolizing how massive Antarctica is along with its profound relationship to the planet’s climate and oceans.
What’s happening?
Scientists are watching closely as the massive, over 1,000-foot-tall iceberg known as A23a makes its way toward the open and warmer waters of the Southern Atlantic Ocean, moving around three miles each day.
The iceberg calved from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986 and is about 1,500 square miles — bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.
News of A23a’s migration comes after reports of record-high heat that will define 2023 as the warmest year in 125,000 years. Over the past several decades, the Arctic has warmed four times faster than the rest of the world.
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Icebergs, whether melted or not already establish their effect in ocean levels because they are already in the ocean.
Now, ice on the land that slides into the water may affect the level but not to 200 ft.
Fear porn.
Bravo!
When you see the word “scientist” these days, it usually means “activist.”
Who also calculated the diameter of the earth with surprising accuracy given the lack of precision instruments and chronometers.
I once heard a Pseudoscientist (psychologist) claim that due to evolution people are smarter today than they were during ancient Greece. I almost fell out of my chair laughing. Who today could rival Pythagoras?
When all the ice melts we can turn out the lights and go home. Drive carefully.
So, do the scientists who propose terraforming and populating other planets overlap with the scientists ringing the alarm bell over global warming?
Yes, He does.
He also speaks through prophets, preachers, teachers, evangelists, and apostles. (Sometimes donkeys)
It’s in the BOOK.
Here’s another question for the global warming geniuses:
As this iceberg melts, will the ocean get
A. Warmer
B. Colder
C. Stay the same temperature
And when it melts, it will not affect the sea level one iota.
melted, to raise the ocean level by ZERO
just as the ice that melts in your glass of soda raises the level by ZERO
morons.
When you see the word “scientist” these days, it usually means “activist.”
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. that or
narcissist activist.
or even a paid narrative control cubicle piece worker paid with doughnuts
( waving to f.r. N.C.C. /-)
Tak jest!
Do you know how big the ocean surface is? A little ice cube melting won’t do a thing.
It’s the Jooos again. Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg.....what’s the difference?
“the Antarctic Ice Sheet holds 70% of all the fresh water on the planet. It contains enough ice, if melted, to raise the ocean level by about 200 feet”
Antarctica is covered with miles deep ice that is thousands of feet above sea level being land ice. As a hydrogeologist I can confirm there is more than enough water frozen there to raise sea levels 200+ feet if it all melted. Greenland has 50 feet of sea level rise worth of ice as well. Both of those ice sheets have completely melted in the geological past there is evidence all over the world’s coast lines for this fact. Humans had nothing to do with the past meltings plural as it’s happened more than once. Humans have nothing to do with our current interglacial period either it’s all controlled by the sun, earth’s axis tilt cycle and our orbital period cycles. Some facts are just facts and the amount of ice land bound in Antarctica is well conformed fact with not only radar, satellite altimeter, lidar and borehole data but gravity survey from aircraft and the Grace NASA missions all confirm the gross land ice volume.
Not only coast lines, those pretty Red rocks in Sedona were underwater.
I think I've read where the north pole has been warmer, while the south pole has been colder.
BTW - the highest temperature ever recorded at the south pole was 9.9 degrees Fahrenheit (in 2011). Not much melting going on there for the moment.
“And when it melts, it will not affect the sea level one iota.”
Fun physics question...when an iceberg grounds does it still displace the same amount of Archimedian volume? By definition grounding is being in too shallow water to float anymore so it’s a trick question. While that iceberg is and was grounded by definition it would have had to have mass and volume above the Archimedes displacement depth otherwise it would have just kept floating along with the current. The volume of ice above the displacement level would be a tiny fraction of the total volume so its impact on sea level would be negligible. The total sea level rise would have happened in the initial floating of the berg leaving land. It’s grounding would have lowered sea level a tiny fraction and it’s refloating went back to the original displacement level.
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