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A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, weighs more than a trillion tonnes. Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes.
http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/
Also at BBC, PBS, The Guardian, and The Verge.
Complete Calving Coverage:
Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move
Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days
Delaware-Sized Iceberg Could Break Off of Antarctica at Any Moment
Larsen C Rift Branches as it Comes Within 5 km of Calving
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:26PM (9 children)
The most fascinating part of this has been watching almost all media and nearly every discussion on the internet act like this is an ominous portent due to climate change, except the people who study it.
http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/ [projectmidas.org]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/giant-antarctic-iceberg-breaks-free-of-larsen-c-ice-shelf [theguardian.com]
I've never seen better evidence that this climate change issue is a religious or political thing for the vast majority of people. The mental gymastics they will pull to make this about climate change, despite being told by the researchers it isn't, are amazing.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:41PM (7 children)
Nobody in this discussion has said this calving has to with climate change, or with global warming. In general, though, if ice is warmed sufficiently it does melt.
http://www.projectmidas.org/about/ [projectmidas.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:51PM
Nobody in this discussion has said this calving has to with climate change
Nor did they in the source article.
FTA:
“Although this is a natural event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history. We’re going to be watching very carefully for signs that the rest of the shelf is becoming unstable.”
And since it always comes up:
"Whilst this new iceberg will not immediately raise sea levels, if the shelf loses much more of its area, it could result in glaciers that flow off the land behind speeding up their passage towards the ocean."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:51PM
* has to do with
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:53PM (1 child)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751153 [ycombinator.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:11PM
Check the timestamps.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:55PM
Except that it is the mission of the organization to study the effects of global warming on this ice. That is the reason this thing is getting so much attention. If these scientists worked on curing diseases, they would generate news about something that matters, instead of this distraction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @06:26PM
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=20519&page=1&cid=538220#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @06:47PM
GP gets the prize for bringing politics to this one. gewg_ gets second place.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday July 12 2017, @09:28PM
I think not everyone would agree.
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