A gigantic iceberg has just broken off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica and will begin floating north in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s as large as one of America’s smaller states (try to guess which one).
Some believe it is the third largest iceberg to break off the continent since satellite measurements became possible. But at this point, scientists are unable to pinpoint the exact path it might take.
The phenomenon of an iceberg forming off an ice shelf is known as “calving,” and the rift in the Larsen shelf that led to the latest iceberg began in 2010. Then, in 2016, it began growing rapidly.
No doubt hysterical climate change advocates will find a way to fit this normal event into their hyperventilated rhetoric. Scientists have tracked Antarctic icebergs since 1978 and have a continuous database that has tracked all the ones since 1999.
From June 1999 through April 2016 the track of each iceberg is available to analyze in order to determine a likely path for new icebergs.
Find out just how big the new iceberg is, where scientists think it could float and the possible impact the iceberg might have on ocean levels as it melts in warmer ocean currents. Details are on the next page.
Let China and India pay their share if climate change needs help!!
Everything that think they know about climate change is a guess based on a guess based on a guess and eventually the guesses became fact. No one on this earth has been alive long enough to really watch and learn the earths patterns. Some of which take 100’s of years to occur.
Check the temp data in the Southern Hemisphere! Record cold and ice depths! Climate change did not cause a glacier to break off! It is a normal occurrence.
It’s the end of the world I’m sure of it now.
Good. With any luck it’ll float up north and smash into Delaware itself
Al Gore is not climate change its that squirrel in Ice Age okay
Timing of this story is suspicious!! I would call it BS. When you talk about climate change it is all about how they can line their pockets with your money!!
I’m sure Obama and Al Gore set some bombs off. They still believe in that whole “climate thingy”.
Scientific report today said that even though temperatures at the poles have been warmer, this break off is normal for ice shelves in the Antarctic and not attributed to global warming.
It’s going home!