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.
Funny and true. The globull warming crowd ain’t gonna like him deviating from their standard script.
bert, I’m gonna have to ask you to move your desk. So if you could just get it pushed back as far as possible, that would be terrific.
I see you are a realist about climate “science”.
I was shocked when I read that line! Someone telling the truth!
They just can’t help themselves.
Move along nothing to see here it’s NORMAL
Lol- yep, he dared speak the truth, now he is toast
I wonder where Michelle’s 46 or so servants stay?
Lol. I blame green laws. The more that are passed, the more ice shelf calve off
They should tow it to Saudi Arabia.
NOT LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE.........DUH
I wonder where Michelle’s 46 or so servants stay?
In that much smaller building off to the left.
Yup probably lol
On top of the $11M they also installed a 2500 gallon propane tank last year. That is a huge tank. My local ACE hardware store has a 1000 gallon tank that they use for filling up peoples 20 gallon gas grill tanks. I guess Big Mike does not want that in ground pool to be under 85 degrees.
QUICK, wire the Titanic!
Fair enough. Maybe. And maybe not. Let's conduct a study using Lexis-Nexus...ya know...science. What do we get? crickets. That's peculiar.
But one satellite image shows A "vast iceberg" falling, without any context or noting that we've had satellite images for a fraction of our time on Earth? ITS GLOBULL WARMING!!
I'll take a Londonberg anyday. Londustan, not so much.
Shipping gold and cash to Iran does pay off.
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