100-Sq.-Mile Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier

suraj.sun sends word of a 100-sq.-mile (260-sq.-km) ice island that broke off of a Greenland glacier on Thursday. "The block of ice separated from the Petermann Glacier, on the north-west coast of Greenland. It is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962... The ice could become frozen in place over winter or escape into the waters between Greenland and Canada. ... [NASA satellite] images showed that Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-km-long (43-mile) floating ice shelf. There was enough fresh water locked up in the ice island to 'keep all US public tap water flowing for 120 days,' said Prof Muenchow." The Montreal Gazette has more details and implications for Canadian shipping and oil exploration, along with this telling detail: "the ice island’s thickness [is] more than 200 metres in some places... [or] half the height of the Empire State Building." The NY Times has a good satellite photo of the situation.

Comments

Re:You came out of the woodwork fast

[daveime]

You can't take the average temperature increase of the whole fucking globe, and assume that because of that, an ice shelf breaking off in Greenland has been caused by it.

You might as well argue that a snowball melting in Norway is caused by all those cunts in Australia using their barbecues.

The A in AGW does NOT stand for AVERAGE, you dumb fuck.

Re:2 answers about atmosphere and the weather

[andymar]

You are an idiot