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.
Ice is also growing in other parts of South Pole only MSM hides that fact in order to be sensational. This iceberg was floating on water so will not raise sea level one mm.
Qatar has been thinking about trying to pull one of these huge bergs North. Not sure it would make it though.
cool. hahahaha
This piece has been braking for years. The expeditions in the Antarctic have known about it for a long enough time that they moved thier outpost.
NASA says this is a Natural occurrence. The first, however recorded in our lifetime
After research. it seems an iceberg could be considered a result of a glacier.
Mark Shontz Sr. I think you’re right from what I remember in my elementary school science classes – but that, too, was a very long time ago.
Oh like this has never happened before . Hell I remember several times that it happened . When I was in Jr High in the 60s it happened and we discussed it in my science class .
It’s them Russians again,they did it
It broke off because it was to big.