Graphic shows Chasm-1 has calved a huge iceberg the size of Greater London. Credit: British Antarctic Survey Posted on 01/24/2023 3:49:33 AM PST by LibWhacker
Graphic shows Chasm-1 has calved a huge iceberg the size of Greater London. Credit: British Antarctic Survey
A huge iceberg nearly the size of Greater London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf near a research station, the second such split in two years, researchers announced Monday.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said the formation of the new iceberg—in a natural process called "calving"—was not due to climate change, which is accelerating the loss of sea ice in the Arctic and parts of Antarctica.
The iceberg, measuring 1,550 square kilometers (598 square miles), detached from the 150-meter-thick Brunt Ice Shelf a decade after scientists first spotted massive cracks in the shelf.
A similar spectacular separation, involving a 1,270-square-kilometer iceberg, occurred around a year ago.
"This calving event has been expected and is part of the natural behavior of the Brunt Ice Shelf," said BAS glaciologist Dominic Hodgson.
"It is not linked to climate change."
Britain's Halley VI Research Station monitors the state of the vast floating ice shelf daily but is unaffected by the latest rupture.
The mobile research base was relocated inland for safety reasons in 2016-2017 as cracks in the ice threatened to cut it off.
Since then, staff have been deployed there only during the Antarctic summer between November to March, with 21 researchers currently on-site.
They maintain the power supplies and facilities that keep scientific experiments operating remotely through the winter, when it is dark for 24 hours and the temperature falls below minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Farenheit).
"Our science and operational teams continue to monitor the ice shelf in real-time to ensure it is safe, and to maintain the delivery of the science we undertake at Halley," added Hodgson.
They are set to be collected by aircraft around February 6, according to the BAS, a world leader in environmental research in the region.
Poor Dominic will be searching for a new job tomorrow.
Ok, that was funny….
He will just get another government grant.
Only if he recants his heresy.
yeah, no bias here.
Nice how they present liberal theory/propaganda as fact.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60825387
The Beeb story on the berg. Doing the same thing, saying berg not from climate change while presenting climate change as a scientific fact.
Nice try, Deep States.
Does that include Cheapside?
If gravity was outlawed like carbon... Covid jabs could be the answer.
It certainly requires a $100 billion dollar UN study, to be funded by a global tax on gasoline, firearms, water consumption, meat, and alcohol. Exceptions apply.
Personally I blame satellites. Seems the more we watch, the more ice breaks off. Coincidence? I think not.
Overall a NASA study showed Antarctica was packing on an incredible amount of ice.
“a huge iceberg the size of Greater London”
Londberg.
Yes! This is the first nature observation this year that isn’t due to climate change.
Quick, put a tow rope on it and drag it to the Red Sea, so the Saudi Arabians may have huge quantities of potable water for irrigation and to supply their needs for urban growth and modern conveniences.
I had heard somewhere where such a plan was under consideration by the Saudis for those very purposes.
My first thought, too.
It’s linked to all the idiots who go down there to play with the penguins.
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