Vast Antarctic Ice Shelf on Verge of Collapse (Wilkins Ice Shelf)

LiveScience.com on Yahoo ^ | 3/25/08 | Andrea Thompson

[edcoil]

Norm - why post twice?

[NormsRevenge]

The region where the Wilkins Ice Shelf lies has experienced unprecedented warming in the past 50 years, with several ice shelves retreating in the past 30 years. Six of these ice shelves have collapsed completely: Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and the Jones Ice Shelf.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Scambos alerted colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) that it looked like the entire ice shelf - about 6,180 square miles (16,000 square kilometers - about the size of Northern Ireland)- was at risk of collapsing.

Let's just wait and see whether the sea levels rise and swamp the world's coastal cities. Otherwise, these reports are pure bunk.

[Slapshot68]

Meanwhile, other parts of Antarctica’s ice sheets are thickening.

[politicket]

When the water up there gets to bathtub temperature then let me know....I’ll call my travel agent.

[steelyourfaith]

 

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[Citizen Tom Paine]

I wouldn't get my socks it a twitter over this. The largest Antarctic iceberg ever spotted was by the USS Glacier in 1955. It was twice the size of the state of Connecticut.

[NormsRevenge]

Im whacking the first one, beats me what happened, mouce button bounce?

[SmithL]

Oh, No! Not Again!

[McKayopectate]

Ooh! I wanna see! I wanna see!

[capt. norm]

A vast ice shelf hanging on by a thin strip looks to be the next chunk to break off from the Antarctic Peninsula

Relax. It's just Ted Kennedy stocking up on ice for his next party.

[NormsRevenge]

A map of the Antarctic Peninsula with the location of the the Wilkins Ice Sheet,
which is on the southern portion of the peninsula.
Credit: British Antarctic Survey

[Slapshot68]

“Im whacking the first one, beats me what happened, mouce button bounce?”

I’ve noticed sometimes posts go through twice...especially when the server seems to hang.

[Red Badger]

Save the Polar Bears!.............oh, wait, they ain’t no polar bears there!........Then it’s okay.....

[Red Badger]

It’s not you mouse, it’s you .....

[NormsRevenge]

[Renegade]

If I let the ice melt completely in my Jack & Coke, the level goes down .( without drinking)

[Always Right]

I am still upset about the lose of that melting glacier which covered most of the midwest 15,000 years ago.

[Recovering_Democrat]

IBBF.