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Largest Glacier-Calving Ever Filmed....
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| 12/14/12
| weareexposure
Posted on 03/26/2013 5:36:49 PM PDT by Doogle
On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland . The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.
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TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: glacier
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To: Doogle
WOW great vid, thanks for posting.
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:14:28 PM PDT
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Those who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: katana
In the last 15,000 year Florida has been underwater and twice its present size. I love to ask global warming fanatics what is the “correct” sea level for Florida.
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:17:52 PM PDT
by
Tea Party Terrorist
(Those who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Tea Party Terrorist
That’s good!
Since some of the other planets are warming up, I ask what type SUV’s they drive there.
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:28:42 PM PDT
by
laplata
To: Doogle
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:29:10 PM PDT
by
Thorliveshere
(Tais deau sá taghdedaul!)
To: katana
Come on man! Stop with the common sense! < /s>
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:31:55 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: katana
"...the plant life, if it could, would thank us for the extra breathable gas." Won't be too long before I'll be picking some wild blackberries in the woods behind my house. I consider that a pretty fine expression of gratitude on their behalf :-)
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:39:23 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Mears
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posted on
03/26/2013 7:45:56 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Doogle
Just the kind of an event you would expect to see during the tail end of an interglacial. The good news is that they cannot grow as fast as they can collapse.
To: Blood of Tyrants
Alaskan glaciers do that on a much smaller scale (obviously). They will be pretty much stable for years, then suddenly begin to break off and calve, and retreat miles back. It’s called “surging,” and it’s normal. It also happens in cold years, when no globes are warming.
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:19:43 PM PDT
by
redhead
(NO GROUND TO THE DEVIL! Use Weaponized Prayer)
To: Doogle
Hey, that was pretty cool! Thanks!
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posted on
03/27/2013 2:35:06 AM PDT
by
siamesecats
(God closes one door, and opens another, to protect us.)
To: Blood of Tyrants; kstewskis; SkyDancer; Kaslin
I agree...
They describe this as awesome and horrible at the same time; as if nothing's ever going to change out there.
It's an amazing piece of film.
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posted on
03/27/2013 4:19:12 AM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: Doogle; kstewskis; SkyDancer; Kaslin
I remember as kids we used to go down to the Milwaukee River and watch the ice break up and float down stream during the spring. We'd sit there all afternoon, munching on peanut butter and banana sandwiches, happy as clams seeing this natural spectacle. (This was back in the early sixties...)
Damn that global warming! (And all along I thought it was caused by the British Invasion.)
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posted on
03/27/2013 4:22:56 AM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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