[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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David Ross says:

July 17, 2012 at 7:52 pm

“An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier … At 46 square miles (120 square km), this latest ice island is about half the size of the mega-calving that occurred from the same glacier two years ago.”

For perspective, the, later mentioned, ice island that broke free from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, in (pre-CAGW) 1962, was 230-square-miles, so equivalent to 10 Manhattans, which is still 4 Manhattans more than the 2010 and 2012 ice islands combined.

But if we took that ice and put it in a Lake Michigan amount of whiskey and vermouth and had a maraschino cherry the size of a small moon we’d have a Manhattan to beat them all :)

[svcw]

And......
Ok, the Norse, vikings, or whoever settled Greenland because they could start a settlement for expansion and farm. These people were there about 1000 years before it got to cold to stay.
Yea, I know it has nothing to do with the article but tonight I am irritated by anything even remotely tied to bogus global warming, which always ends with blaming man.
Enough, have a drink and go to bed!!!! its late.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf..."

Any relation to Mike ?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well, I guess this means the Petermann Glacier is not such a big deal anymore!

[SuziQ]

Prior to 2010, the last time such a sizable ice island was born in the region was 50 years ago. In 1962, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, calved a 230-square-mile island.

But how could that be? Was there 'global warming' in 1962, as well? /s

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting the article.

“The Greenland ice sheet as a whole is shrinking, melting and reducing in size as the result of responding to globally LOCALLY changing air and ocean temperatures and associated changes in circulation patterns in both the ocean and atmosphere,” he notes.

(fixed it)

[bkepley]

Rope that calve and take it to Texas.