SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @10:55AM (2 children)
The volume of this over-hyped ice cube is already .62% displaced. Further, since the water it is dissolving into is nearly the same temperature as the ice, the thermal delta coefficient is infinitesimally small.
A few cloudy days over the vast sea region causes more than enough radiated surface cooling to render the net effects insignificant.
#hype #junkscience #clickbait
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday July 06 2017, @11:02AM
That doesn't matter. The point is that over time, on average, they are both getting warmer.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @02:56PM
0.62%? As in 0.0062 of the total?