If you decide to read the article you will see some less earth shattering stuff:
- Iceberg broke into a hundred pieces (or more) - It is 4 feet thick, so basically little shipping hazard.
So it looks like we are dodging the global warning extinction bullet again.
I wish it was one big chunk, we could have made it a Coronavirus colony ...
Iceberg breaks off....that’s soooo new....never happened before....seals will die, Polar bears will die, fish will be no more, NYC will be under water....../s
Thank you for saving me the time! I knew it was Warmer Cultist Bull Sh*t!
We see these all the time in Antarctica in recent years, thanks to satellite imagery.
Well, there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DEi0hqaYs
Perhaps boyknee sanduhs should comment about “The aunt awktick is on fiuh!”
Aw, just a lil’ baby!
From July 2017!
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2606/massive-iceberg-breaks-off-from-antarctica/
“An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12. The calving of the massive new iceberg was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and confirmed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite. The final breakage was first reported by Project Midas, an Antarctic research project based in the United Kingdom....”
“...In the case of this rift, scientists were worried about the possible loss of a pinning point that helped keep Larsen C stable. In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades. Ultimately, the rift stopped short of separating from the protrusion.
“The remaining 90 percent of the ice shelf continues to be held in place by two pinning points: the Bawden Ice Rise to the north of the rift and the Gipps Ice Rise to the south,” said Chris Shuman, a glaciologist with Goddard and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. “So I just don’t see any near-term signs that this calving event is going to lead to the collapse of the Larsen C ice shelf. But we will be watching closely for signs of further changes across the area.”
An ice cube breaks off and floats.
And as soon as it floats a few degrees longitude, it melts into the sea. And the sea doesn’t notice.
Calving Season
This is both HUGE and SERIOUS!
Where’s the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 and a glass? LOL
Washington, D.C. is 61.05 square miles (158.1 km2) (land area), so double that would be 122.1 square miles.
So other city comparisons would be Lubbock, TX (122.4 sq mi), Fernley, NV (122.1 sq mi), and Marana, AZ (121.5 sq mi)
Antarctic sea ice varies from about 1.55 MILLION square miles, to 10.6 MILLION square miles.
Now if D.C. would just break off and float away we’d be in good shape.
BREAKING NEWS... Ice melts in the summer (freezes in the winter).
What happened to Larsen Ice Shelves A and B and how big were they? Did we survive their collapse?
Indeed when antarctica ice stops breaks-off it’s called an ice age.
i thought when ice melts, it shrinks... not cracks and breaks... that happens when glaciers grow and move...
doomers.