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Giant Ice Shelf Snaps

Posted by Zonk on from the as-long-as-the-movie-doesn't-feature-sandra-bullock dept.

Popo writes "Sattelite images have revealed that an ancient 66 square-kilometer ice shelf, the size of 11,000 football fields, has snapped off from an island in Canada's arctic. The Ayles Ice Shelf was one of 6 major shelves remaining in Canada's arctic and is estimated to be over 3000 years old. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 km away picked up tremors. Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor."

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  1. 11,000 football fields by Fear+the+Clam · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How many Libraries of Congress is that?

  2. Re:A river in Eygpt by vought · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why does everybody forget the SUN? The source of 99.999% of the heat on earth varying in its output by a teeny tiny fraction of a percentage of it's output couldn't possibly make the earth warmer or colder could it?

    So, your hypothesis is that the sun, which has been massively consistent in heat output for the past 60,000 years according to core samples, waited to turn up the heat until the precise moment in geological history that human beings started putting 70 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere?

    Seriously - watch an Inconvenient Truth. It won't kill you and you might actually learn something.

  3. Re:How much is that in square furlongs? by Fnkmaster · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sorry, but how big is that in Library of Congresses?