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[...] A massive iceberg roughly 225 square miles in size--or in more familiar terms, 10 times the size of Manhattan--broke off [from the Pine Island Glacier] in July 2015. Scientists subsequently spotted cracks in the glacier on a November 2016 flyover. And in January, another iceberg cleaved off the glacier.
Satellite imagery captured the most recent calving event, which Ohio State glaciologist Ian Howat said " is the equivalent of an 'aftershock'" following the July 2015 event. The iceberg was roughly "only" the size of Manhattan, underscoring just how dramatic the other breakups have been.
[...] The ocean under Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf has warmed about 1°F since the 1990s. That's causing the ice shelf to melt and pushing the grounding line--the point where the ice begins to float--back toward land, creating further instability.
[...] The glaciers [such as the Pine Island Glacier] and ice shelves [such as the Larsen C ice shelf, which is on a death watch] help hold back a massive ice sheet on land. Their failure would send that ice to the ocean, pushing sea levels up to 13 feet higher than they are today.
[...] Cutting carbon pollution presents the only path forward to stave off the worst impacts of a melting Antarctic.
(Score: 1) by charon on Sunday February 19 2017, @08:53AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @09:31AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:57PM
I guess you need to hire someone that can do this at a salary appropriate for the position?
I've done stuff that got altered after I put careful time into it as well, and ended up disappointed with what happened to my work, but come on, the editors here are free and do this as a service. Your proposed article was posted. We'd be discussing it now were it not for the complaints regarding the short cut in the short cut.
Perhaps we can request that users with a certain level of karma are allowed to post reference points as you had done? It'd be a matter of someone being able to alter the site's code to know that User #X shouldn't get as heavy of an editorial hand on the URLs, as flashing lights and manual reminders will not scale. But it would be prone to abuse.
personally I have learned to live with safeguards such as what the editor had done, but on my own, I make use of similar organization methods... too much is open to abuse to really expect to use a lot of that methodology publically without risking encountering someone that wants to advertise to me with the same methods.