Climate Change's Orphans: Rogue iceberg floating toward Austrailia

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from CNN:



Giant iceberg heading towards Australia
December 9, 2009 11:39 a.m. EST


(CNN) -- A massive iceberg -- more than twice the size of New York's Manhattan island -- is drifting slowly toward Australia, scientists said Wednesday.

The iceberg, measuring 140 square km (54 square miles), cleaved off an ice shelf nearly 10 years ago and had been floating near Antarctica before commencing on its unusual journey north.

Named B17B, it was about 1,700 km (1,056 miles) off the coast of West Australia, according to the country's Antarctic Division.

"B17B is a very significant one in that it has drifted so far north while still largely intact," said Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young, who spotted the slab using satellite images taken by NASA and the European Space Agency.

"It's one of the biggest sighted at those latitudes." .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/12/09/australia.iceberg/index.html

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1. Assuming it has an average thickness of a couple thousand feet.

IF you could get this baby landed somewhere, and stored the melt water, you could charge $.01 a gallon and still make about $300 Billion dollars.

That's a big iceberg. More of an ice island.