Holy Crap.. Watch this Giant Glacier break off into the ocean

[Ichingcarpenter]

Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes this is an edited piece 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. It was the size of Manhattan.

The sound is also incredible

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[SummerSnow]

1. Freaking awesome!!!

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Hope the east coast

is up on its flood insurance.

[lumpy]

2. Excellent Thanks

[hunter]

4. Places in the world where you would die.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

It probably won't be ice, but it will be something.

Climate change is awesome, but not in a good way.

[CrispyQ]

5. This movie is available at Netflix.

Highly recommended!

[SnowCritter]

12. I know what I'm watching tonite!

[CrispyQ]

16. You will watch the calving scene multiple times.

It's impressive in it's scope.

[steve2470]

6. k&r nt

[LuvNewcastle]

7. That was beautiful. Thanks.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Shaken, not stirred.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. The sound if calving glaciers is amazing.

I never truly realized that until watching it at the Perito Moreno glacier. I mean "Fucking Wow" was all I could say.

[bkanderson76]

10. Holy Crap Yes Indeed....Thank You Ichingcarpenter

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. Wow

[Pretzel_Warrior]

13. I give humans another 100 to 200 years tops.

[HipChick]

23. That's being generous..

[gopiscrap]

14. wow that was incredible

[neverforget]

15. Thank you! That was incredible to watch! nt

[JimDandy]

17. Dang, that was impressive! n/t

[Scuba]

18. A hoax, perpetrated by Al Gore as part of his relentless efforts to destroy America.

Probably filmed in (sneer!) Hollywood on some back lot. Only a liberal whackjob would fall for that fake movie!






There, now you don't need to go to any of the other blogs.

[ctsnowman]

43. lol Love it.

[passiveporcupine]

19. they needed a banana for scale

Seriously though, that time lapse part at the end where you see just how much was involved was totally amazing. And scary. When the speaker points out how fast the ice is retreating, it should really make people stop and think. But will it?

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. 25 years of satellite data compressed into 1 minute shows

25 years of satellite data compressed into 1 minute shows older polar ice melting away.
1987-2013




From NOAA

[passiveporcupine]

22. You don't have to convince me

How do we get conservatives to view and believe this?

[Delphinus]

31. Talk about scary!!

Wow!

[kjones]

21. Going to forgo GW talk right now just to admire the awesome scale of that. nt

[Duppers]

24. K&R

Most important issue of our lifetime.

[tosh]

25. wow....speechless.

Thank you for posting these, Icc.

[liberal N proud]

26. Incredible

[TeeYiYi]

27. k+r wow...nt

TYY

[shanti]

28. Not really new, but still insanely awesome

when i first saw this i was transfixed and couldn't take my eyes off the screen!

knr

[malaise]

29. Fabulous

Thanks

[justhanginon]

30. Thanks so much for posting.

Definitely want to see the move. That had to be scary to see in person just by the sheer magnitude. Wow, just wow!

[Auntie Bush]

32. Holy Cow! I'm speachless. That was awsome!

But scary to think of what's happening.

[Eleanors38]

33. Thanks for the post. Miami Beach is the next Stiltsville.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

34. I can't believe I'm kicking an ichingcarpenter thread!

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Wow.

[Major Nikon]

36. I've seen the worlds largest ice machine in action

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstenholme_Fjord

[Quantess]

37. I wonder why the term is "calving"?

It makes me think of a whale calf, or something.

[Hekate]

41. It's the child of the glacier breaking away from the mother ice....

[Quantess]

42. I'll buy that. Thanks. (no text)

[nikto]

38. Nature does great special FX

[mopinko]

39. when you watch this, it looks like sand castles being washed away

i have had the luck to have seen and walked on glaciers in alaska. believe me, what looks like grains of sand at giant, giant chunks of ice. if you have had that good luck, this is a thousand times scarier.

[closeupready]

40. Yes, that was really amazing footage.

Thanks. K&R