One of the largest icebergs ever seen is about to break away

[G_j]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theweathernetwork.com/amp/news/immense-antarctic-larsen-c-crack-heralds-birth-giant-iceberg/83606

Thursday, June 29, 2017, 12:55 PM
One of the largest icebergs ever seen is about to break away from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf, and scientists say that when that happens, the rest of the ice sheet will likely begin to disintegrate.

After years of watching an immense, 300 metre-wide (1,500 feet-wide) rift spread through the Larsen C Ice Shelf, researchers with Project MIDAS - a UK-based Antarctic research project who are investigating the effects of a warming climate on this ice shelf - are saying that a calving event, where a huge iceberg breaks off from the ice shelf, is imminent.



This crack was first noticed in 2010 and has been watched since, but its progress has been accelerating since 2015, and it has gotten worse over the past year.

Now, according to the scientists monitoring it, this portion of the ice shelf is pulling away at a rate of over 10 metres per day - three times what they were seeing previously.


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[Botany]

1. And this is happening during the Antarctic winter.

man is the world screwed

[pansypoo53219]

6. early winter. the south pole is at least well under 0f all year. no penguin on the one island cam i

watch. fewer seals this 'summer'. maybe able to nest/pup a NEWLY warmer parts.

[BigmanPigman]

2. It is a hoax. It's made up by fake scientists. God made it happen to punish the polar bears...

This is how Fux News would report it and idiots will eat it up. We live in the bizarro world now.

[G_j]

3. And you just have to wonder

if it's fake ice..

[longship]

4. Of course, there are no polar bears in the southern hemisphere.

Which would make any such claim ridiculous. It would be no surprise if Faux reported it.
Well played, BigPig!

[longship]

5. Apparently it's about the size of the state of Delaware.

R&