[farmguy]

If it runs into the island, it may tip it over.

hank johnson

[rlmorel]

I am astonished that they didn’t utter “climate change” explicitly, though they did go in every direction around it! I suppose if they did, they would have to acknowledge large pieces of ice still exist.

Heck, if that iceberg lasts for 10 years after it beaches, that means there would still be about two more years before Global Warming takes all of us!

[rarestia]

Ecosystems can and will bounce back of course

Oh REALLY? Funny how that works... ecosystems... bouncing back and all.

[PROCON]

Whoa, that's a huge iceberg. It's so big that New York and Miami should be under water now from it raising the oceans all over erf.

#climatescience

[mylife]

A68a? Lame name, lame pictures, lame story

[Huskrrrr]

A new ski resort?

[Rebelbase]

Those pics linked in the article don’t give justice to the size of this iceberg. I’ll take a pic from space to show the length and breadth of it.

[TonyM]

How many poor polar bears who never learned to swim are stuck on it?

[SamAdams76]

In terms of area, this iceberg is slightly bigger than the state of Delaware. Twice as big as the state of Rhode Island.

Squirrels collecting nuts.

[crusty old prospector]

World’s largest since when?

[OKSooner]

An iceberg and an ice floe and an ice shelf are all three different things, aren’t they?

I’m not sure if this NPR dude knows the answer to that question.

[libh8er]

The iceberg is bigger than South Georgia itself (1500 square miles vs 2300 square miles ). If it collides with South Georgia it could wipe out one of the richest wildlife habitats on earth (Attenborough’s Planet Earth II and Frozen planet). Maybe the Royal Air Force will step in and break it down to smaller chunks before it makes landfall, if it’s really on collision course. And then maybe microwaves could shrink them further.

[Pocketdoor]

Perfect for a bottled water startup.

[webheart]

When looking for a cool verb to describe the movement of a huge iceberg this highly educated writer chose “veers”. He didn’t even try to find a thesaurus. If he had he would have used “careens”. Veering is turning or changing direction. Careening is more like bearing down on unless the iceberg was moving along and suddenly turned toward South Georgia Island. It is very likely that the iceberg will not get anywhere near there they just need it to veer a bit so they can write a scary story. Then it can veer back and they won’t mention it again having already started the cortisol and adrenaline. That is why they didn’t say “heading straight towards”.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Ben, screw all the critical detractors who trip all over themselves trying to become the biggest cloaca to crap all stories like this.

Thanks for posting, its interesting!

[damper99]

Nuke it.