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Climate Central reports
[...] 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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @01:06PM
The highly advanced civilization living inside the planet at the south pole is doing all this. They are going to come back and take over the planet. They went underground because the atmospheric conditions did not suit them and they were dying.
There were a lot of expeditions to the south pole a few decades ago consisting of navy warships. Most of the navy ships were destroyed or badly damaged during the encounter with the civilization living down there.
Now they are breaking free and will take the planet back. It is no use fighting them. Cooperating is far more productive.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday February 19 2017, @01:12PM
Cthulhu has developed eczema. The chunk is actually one of his skin flakes. I know, ewww, right?
Washington DC delenda est.