Posted on 02/14/2020 6:26:35 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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Iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C., breaks off Pine Island glacier in Antarctica
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/02/13/antarctica-iceberg-massive-iceberg-breaks-off-pine-island-glacier/4748397002/
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
If you decide to read the article you will see some less earth shattering stuff:
- Iceberg broke into a hundred pieces (or more) - It is 4 feet thick, so basically little shipping hazard.
So it looks like we are dodging the global warning extinction bullet again.
I wish it was one big chunk, we could have made it a Coronavirus colony ...
Now if we could just break off DC and send it to sea.
Iceberg breaks off....that’s soooo new....never happened before....seals will die, Polar bears will die, fish will be no more, NYC will be under water....../s
Thank you for saving me the time! I knew it was Warmer Cultist Bull Sh*t!
We see these all the time in Antarctica in recent years, thanks to satellite imagery.
Wow, the size of Washington DC. A city that was supposed to be 5 X 5 miles.
That’s rather anti-climactic.
That’s rather anti-climactic.
....
You got that right!
Did you notice this little gem from the article:
“The calving occurred along pre-existing cracks in the ice shelf.”
These Warmers can’t ever be honest!
Well, there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1DEi0hqaYs
Perhaps boyknee sanduhs should comment about “The aunt awktick is on fiuh!”
You have something against the COORSvirus?
Together with Faixfax, Loudon and Prince William counties in northeast Virginia.
Aw, just a lil’ baby!
From July 2017!
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2606/massive-iceberg-breaks-off-from-antarctica/
“An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12. The calving of the massive new iceberg was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and confirmed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite. The final breakage was first reported by Project Midas, an Antarctic research project based in the United Kingdom....”
“...In the case of this rift, scientists were worried about the possible loss of a pinning point that helped keep Larsen C stable. In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades. Ultimately, the rift stopped short of separating from the protrusion.
“The remaining 90 percent of the ice shelf continues to be held in place by two pinning points: the Bawden Ice Rise to the north of the rift and the Gipps Ice Rise to the south,” said Chris Shuman, a glaciologist with Goddard and the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. “So I just don’t see any near-term signs that this calving event is going to lead to the collapse of the Larsen C ice shelf. But we will be watching closely for signs of further changes across the area.”
When gravity versus suspended weight ratio becomes too extreme, icebergs perform “calving”. Too much ice (weight) in too small a geography (ice structural integrity) causes breakage.
An ice cube breaks off and floats.
And as soon as it floats a few degrees longitude, it melts into the sea. And the sea doesn’t notice.
Calving Season
Well, if they were honest they would have a pretty hard time convincing the sheeple that the world was ending.
This is both HUGE and SERIOUS!
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