Mammoth iceberg could alter ocean circulation: study

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 2/25/10 | Marlowe Hood

[hinckley buzzard]

This article says it was dislodged by another large, twenty year old iceberg ramming against it.

Roughly 50 miles long and 20 miles wide, a mere speck in the ocean.

[dr_lew]

Here's the view from Modis Aqua on February 20, 2010. For size comparison I've also included a view at the same scale of the Florida Keys on the same date.

[Beowulf9]

pppppping.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I don’t konw,...don’t remember a thread...but there is such a flood,..I may have forgotten.

Hope the snow level works out for you,...whichever is your preference.

[Marine_Uncle]

Ah. It was the start of this tread from a few days ago. I thought I saw similar reference earlier in the week.

[SunkenCiv]

An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month...

Why couldn't it have been the size of Iceland, at least that would have been funny. ;') Thanks Ernest.

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[KoRn]

I just have a feeling that it will break up and melt.

Ice tends to do that when you expose it to warmer water. You don’t need much of a “study” to figure that one out.

An iceberg the size they are talking about in relation to the ocean, would be like throwing an ice cube from your freezer into a swimming pool. I have a very difficult time believing it will make a bit of difference.

I’m sure the people that did this “study” were indeed well paid/rewarded though.....

[LiberConservative]

“The Day After Tomorrow” was a DOCUMENTARY!

Oh, Dear God, I knew it was true!

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Mike Darancette]

I could think of more appropriate effigies.

[BlackVeil]

a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water could result in less temperate winters in the north Atlantic, they said.

I am sure this is nonsense, but look at the reason why they are saying it.

They are saying that there will be colder winters in Europe, because of an iceberg disrupting currents in the south of the world (????) ... not to a failure of global warming.

[M. Espinola]

That's a lot of ice cubes!

[Fresh Wind]