Discussion»Questions»Environment» A giant iceberg splits away from Antarctica. About 1/4 the size of Wales . What kind of harm will it cause or is it another nothing?
It is the LARGEST alarm imaginable that the polar caps are melting.
But, Trump will say it is FAKE NEWS.
Then when he is finally forced to join the Paris counsel, he will blast away that he is the reason that the caps are being addressed and he always knew that climate change was a major issue that he intends to correct.
TRUMP CHANGE - Climate change Same thing. When he can spin it to his advantage, he will spin it and his puppets will say they backed him all the way.
LIES. Dangerous lies. We are all gonna die type lies.
The chcieksh** jacka** in the White House now has press briefings off camera. Soon there will be nothing. Then he will take over the air and block all transmissions of everything. Welcome to he**! Thank you for your reply Shar and the prescient cartoon. Stay tuned! ;)
Ice breaking off the ice shelves near both poles is quite common. Just ask anyone who had relatives or acquaintances on the RMS Titanic. It's so common that there's even a name for the process, calving. Usually the chunks that calve off are relatively small (in terms of icebergs). But every so often a "tabular" iceberg, one the size of a small country, breaks off one of the ice shelves. Among the largest recorded was one back in the mid 50's. It was discovered by a US icebreaker, measured with a surface of over 31,000 square kilometers. And it may have been much larger prior to being discovered. Keep in mind that no one really tracked that sort of thing prior to WWII as it had to be done with surface vessels like ice breakers. Normal ships and aircraft operation was just too dangerous in that climate. It really wasn't until satellite imaging technology and long-range jet aircraft came of age that close tabs could be kept on such arctic and Antarctic activities.
And that tired, old cropped picture of a polar bear on melting ice? Have you ever seen the uncropped photo? LOTS of ice around if you zoom out. Or perhaps it was taken by Jesus as he could walk on water? The photographer is standing on ice or land as the angle is too low to have been taken from the deck of a ship. But I digress. Polar bears are not germane to the topic. They live in the northern hemisphere, the tabular iceberg calved off an Antarctic ice shelf.
The controversy of climate "change" aside, this calving process has been taking place for time immemorial. I have not heard of a single scientist, not even Bill Nye or Al Gore (well, maybe Al "fish are swimming in the streets of Miami" Gore, but no one credible) mention this calving as anything other than a normal ice-shelf process.
It may become a hazard to ships but is otherwise harmless. If it drifts Northwards it will eventually melt. If it was sea-ice originally it won't affect water-level; if land ice (glacial) it would, in theory, but on its own the effect would be almost infinitesimal.
Just read it, Karen. Thank you for the reference. Essentially it's nothing unusual as far as the Antarctic is concerned even if uncommon in human terms. The oceanographers don't seem especially concerned anyway!
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