Second giant ice island set to break off Greenland glacier

MSNBC ^ | updated 9/1/2011 10:43:21 AM ET | By Ian Johnston

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Petermann Glacier seen in August, 2009. The cliffs on the left are about 3,000 feet high, about the same height as three Eiffel Towers or more than two Willis Towers.

Taken nearly two years after the picture above, this photo shows the extent of the ice loss. The channel is about ten miles wide.

[frogjerk]

WERE ALL GONNA DIE!

[frogjerk]

OBAMI’s FAULT!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

H/T to HardOCP:

Second Giant Ice Island Break Off Greenland Glacier

Sunday September 04, 2011

Second Giant Ice Island Break Off Greenland Glacier

You just don’t know what to believe these days about global warming. Every week there is a different weather changing event to prove one side or the other’s point. This week it’s the glaciers are melting faction. A very large section of the Petermann Glacier is about to break off in Northern Greenland. The sky is falling.

"Scientists, skeptical by both nature and training, always urge a dose of caution when looking at any one event as evidence of climate change"

[Jack Hydrazine]

The glacier is doing what it has been doing for hundreds of thousands of years and the Leftists go Chicken Little!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Hodar]

Let’s boycott the Sun!!

[Vaduz]

It’s always warmest before an ice age starts.Cycles work like that.
No word from the wise ones why Mars is heating up too.

[RexBeach]

Didn’t they used to be called icebergs?

[Vigilanteman]

Better get busy building this canal to accommodate all the melting Greenland runoff:

Qattara Depression

If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Mediterranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.

It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?

[GraceG]

[ If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Mediterranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.

It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt? ]

Isn’t the Mediteranian Sea somewhat salty? Salt water may not be a good thing to put in an artificial inland sea......

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[GraceG]

[ It’s always warmest before an ice age starts.Cycles work like that.
No word from the wise ones why Mars is heating up too. ]

Because it starts more evaporation which means more snowfall which leads to greate reflectivity and colder polar caps which causes them to expand....

[cpdiii]

A glacier is on land. When it extends out into the sea it is an ice shelf. What broke off is part of the ice shelf.

I shelfs are inherently unstable and the terminal end of the shelf always breaks off into the sea. It is then called an iceberg.

[GraceG]

[ No word from the wise ones why Mars is heating up too. ]

The Solar Wind blows CO2 off of our planet and onto mars and this is causing mars to have a fever in the millions of degrees less than a mile under the surface of mars.

[Elle Bee]

it's called summer

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[squarebarb]

that doesn’t look like a glacier, it looks like ice cover on a long channel.

Also I can’t see where anything has ‘broken off’, second picture just looks like lower amount of ice pack.

??

[montyspython]

"I'm commin' for ya Al!"

[Rippin]

Jet stream must be working, sign global warming predictions not coming true. Remember, when jet stream stops pumping heat up north and we get more ice in England, Ireland, Greenland, Iceland then that will prove global warming.

As Joe Bastardi says, ‘There is no answer they don’t own.’

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We need to build that canal...give life to the Dark Continent!