A chunk of ice 20 times bigger than Manhattan has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.......(video)(photos)

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[caww]

A chunk of ice 20 times bigger than Manhattan has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey first detected cracks in the shelf ten years ago.

[butlerweave]

Summer will do that or so much Ice has built up that it had to break off

[libh8er]

There was one that was going to strike South Georgia last year and end their penguin population. But sadly for the human-caused-warming hoaxers it disintegrated near the island.

[GreyFriar]

Global warming is heating up the earth, thus providing the heat to Mt. Etna and it erupts (wholly sarcastic)

Of course, having looked at volcanic eruptions, I’ve concluded that those eruptions affect the weather and climate and not the reverse. Look at the decline in temps after major eruptions going back centuries, thus they make the globe cooler, not warmer.

At a larger measure, the climate of this planet has been changing for the last 4-5 billion years, thus it is not new and was happening before we 2 legged critters showed up. But power hungry politicians will never admit that.

[airborne]

Bill Gates can tow it to Africa and give them fresh water.

[airborne]

See! Another time I learn something new from reading posts on FreeRepublic!

Awesome!

[doorgunner69]

Can we trade them?

[lee martell]

HA! She would brag that if anyone could, she could do it, and while smoking a Kool’s.

[centermass_socrates]

That looks pretty c o o l.

I wonder if the hair lady has any gorilla glue left.

[ArcadeQuarters]

I’m not familiar with this unit of measurement. How many Manhattans are in a Rhode Island? And what is it in square furlongs?

[HIDEK6]

On the other hand, is Manhattan all that big?

[Rinnwald]

But I'm only Red six! I still have four more years!"

[caww]

well I thought it was interesting...but I see it's more folks are poking fun at. Thanks for recognizing it's pretty amazing.

[Rinnwald]

I’m not familiar with this unit of measurement.

That's because you're not important.

See, important people have a good sense of the size of Manhattan. Well, at least the southern half.

[School of Rational Thought]

A repairman has been sent to fix the crack

[ronnie raygun]

Good place to put the deep state and their helpers

[caww]

......"A repairman has been sent to fix the crack".......LOL

[Rebelbase]

It needs to be towed north to the Arctic to replace the melting icecap so polar bears have somewhere to get out of the water and rest.

[Rebelbase]

That video amazes me every time I see it.

[caww]

Well....In Italy Feb. 16, Etna erupted, sending up high fountains of lava, which rolled down the mountain's eastern slope The volcano has belched out ash and lava stones that showered the southern side...The activity has been continuing since, in bursts more or less intense. There's no telling how long this round of will last, say volcanologists who work at the Etna Observatory.

[Glad2bnuts]

I remember as a pre-teen, science shows called it calving. It meant that the glacier was growing. Gravity moves the ice as surely as it moves water, just at a different pace.