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A deep crack on on Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf has nearly severed off one of the largest icebergs ever recorded:
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded — 2,500 square miles, about the size of Delaware — is about to break off Antarctica, according to the European Space Agency. The iceberg could speed up the break-off of other ice chunks, eventually eating away at a barrier that prevents ice from flowing to the sea.
The impending iceberg is being carved from one of the continent's major ice shelves, called Larsen C. Scientists have been monitoring Larsen C for months now, as a deep crack has slowly extended over the course of 120 miles. Only about three miles of ice are keeping the iceberg attached to the shelf, ESA says. No one knows when it will break off — it could be any moment — but when it does, the iceberg will likely be 620 feet thick (about the height of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York) and contain roughly 1 trillion tons of ice. It'll be drifting north toward South America, and could even reach the Falkland Islands. "If so it could pose a hazard for ships in Drake Passage," Anna Hogg from the University of Leeds, said in a statement.
Also at BBC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @10:33AM (8 children)
If this doesn't happen what will people think of the news' reputation? Or maybe most people thing each story is about a new iceberg?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @10:57AM (5 children)
Anything to feed the AGW money machine.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday July 06 2017, @02:22PM (4 children)
Yeah, those darned AGW types with their endless stream of cash from wealthy hippies and billionaire whales to push their selfish, self-enriching agenda. I mean when was the last time you saw a climate scientist driving round in anything less than a Maserati?
Meanwhile the poor defenceless oil companies have no means at all to fight back. Every time they need a little bit of money just to build an oil rig or topple a middle eastern regime, they have to hold a raffle outside the local primary school, with the first prize being a lovely sponge cake baked by Mrs Koch.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 06 2017, @06:29PM
when was the last time you saw a climate scientist driving round in anything less than a Maserati?
:-) When was the last time you saw a climate scientist walking to Paris?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:57PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:23PM
There was this couple who tried to get "climate deniers" investigated under RICO laws but then it was quickly found they had been embezzling grant money:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/23/science-agency-eyes-climate-change-professors-use-of-millions-from-taxpayers/ [dailysignal.com]
Not sure what happened with that one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @12:17AM
Those climate scientists are like astrologers with an Excel spreadsheet. Everyone wants to get paid.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 06 2017, @11:37AM
You know, we are in the middle of Antarctic winter, and that block continue to split from the rest.
Wanna bet it's going to separate sometime in the next 6 months?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday July 06 2017, @10:27PM
It will happen eventually. The reason it keeps popping up as an imminent catastrophe story is the sorry state of science reporting, although I suppose we should be happy it gets mentioned at all in a corporate controlled media world. The crack is continually lengthening, but of course such things do not happen at a steady rate. At some point, probably within 1-3 years, it will break off. Then the next crack will get the same press treatment.