Posted on 10/01/2019 4:21:12 PM PDT by RightGeek
The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years.
The calved block covers 1,636 sq km in area - a little smaller than Scotland's Isle of Skye - and is called D28.
The scale of the berg means it will have to be monitored and tracked because it could in future pose a hazard to shipping.
Not since the early 1960s has Amery calved a bigger iceberg. That was a whopping 9,000 sq km in area.
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The Scripps researcher stressed that there was no link between this event and climate change. Satellite data since the 1990s has shown that Amery is roughly in balance with its surroundings, despite experiencing strong surface melt in summer.
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when the solid part above the surface of the scotch melts the level of liquid in the glass will rise
South Africa was considering pulling an iceberg to its shore to solve its drought. This is ready made for that purpose.
Tow it to California, end the drought.
Right out of the short lived series Salvage One.
unpossible... unless you don't like scotch 8^)
In my glass, the scotch always seems to be gone before the ice melts.
I call BS! My climate changes every day. Yesterday it was in the 90s and hot as the dickens. Today, in the 80s and much nicer.
Where did they get the 315 billion figure? How do they know it’s not 314 billion?
Yawn.
DAFUQ?
First Five hundred scientists send letter to UN saying “There is no climate crisis”and now this?
Who sent out the memo to change the narrative?
How many ocean going tugs do you think it would take to pull a 1600 square mile iceberg?
I think the wind and the ocean currents will push it wherever they want it to go.
Eventually it will melt to a manageable size then maybe you could do that.
Maybe some skilled demolition experts could break off some pieces that could be towed.
In my glass, the scotch always seems to be gone before the ice melts.
Who bothers with ice?
Those darn underwater volcanos.
What ice?
So what they are telling us, is that fifty years ago global warming was worse?
LOL
The poor Left. They just don’t have to tools to play this game.
The solution to California’s homeless problem; a pristine air conditioned paradise ready to take on any number of urban outdoorsmen.
I know, their idea, not mine.
Why ruin the scotch with ice???
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