Giant iceberg headed for Australia

www.iceagenow.com ^ | 11 Dec 09 | None Given

[bayliving]

11 Dec 09 - A giant iceberg measuring 140 square km (54 square miles) - double the size of either Sydney Harbour or Manhattan - is headed for Australia.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

These guys display their ignorance. The largest Antarctic tabular iceberg ever observed was by the USS Glacier in 1955. The iceberg was twice the size of Connecticut. Doom is not approaching.

[Mike Darancette]

I thought that the ocean currents circulated around Antarctica and didn’t head north. Prevailing wind patterns should also keep the ice south of 60S. Maybe a Bush era fleet of tug boats towed it northward.

[Yaelle]

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Mostly fresh water. When saltwater freezes, it excludes salt from the ice crystal lattice, in short, it decomposes the compound.

It is possible tho have saltwater ice, or saltwater trapped inside under the right conditions.

Evaporation of seawater likewise(thankfully) excludes the salt and other components of the compound.