[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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David Ross says:

July 17, 2012 at 7:52 pm

“An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier … At 46 square miles (120 square km), this latest ice island is about half the size of the mega-calving that occurred from the same glacier two years ago.”

For perspective, the, later mentioned, ice island that broke free from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, in (pre-CAGW) 1962, was 230-square-miles, so equivalent to 10 Manhattans, which is still 4 Manhattans more than the 2010 and 2012 ice islands combined.

But if we took that ice and put it in a Lake Michigan amount of whiskey and vermouth and had a maraschino cherry the size of a small moon we’d have a Manhattan to beat them all :)

[One Name]

With all that ice I wonder why the ancient northerners named it “Greenland”...

Maybe we just haven’t been around long enough to understand things.

[Marine_Uncle]

Can you even imagine the amount of shaved ice for martinis one could obtain from that hunk of ice. Similar actions over the eons in that part of Greenland probably have repeated the particular activity hundreds of times over the past thousand cycles. What should be brought out is that this particular area contains the few ground stations left in all of Canada, and respective Greenland.
It always is a "hot spot" in that vast area. Go a few hundred miles westward or northward and the temp gradients are different. Colder through all seasons. I can remember this point being brought out in one of Rusbo's rants some six or more years ago, as he was examining the ground station weather activities in that region.
Same deal. One witnessed the breaking off of parts of the protruding glaciers on the Greenland coast.
Normal for that particular geology.