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Massive ice island breaks off Greenland glacier
The Petermann Glacier before the ice island broke off this week.
An island of ice twice the size of Manhattan broke off this week from a Greenland glacier, a University of Delaware researcher reports.
The 59-square-mile (150 square kilometers) iceberg is the second massive loss for the Petermann Glacier in two years, researcher Andreas Muenchow reports. In 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was lost from the glacier.
“While the size is not as spectacular as it was in 2010, the fact that it follows so closely to the 2010 event brings the glacier’s terminus to a location where it has not been for at least 150 years,” Muenchow says in a university press release.
The researcher says its too early to blame global warming for the loss of Greenland ice, however.
“Northwest Greenland and northeast Canada are warming more than five times faster than the rest of the world,” Muenchow says in the press release, “but the observed warming is not proof that the diminishing ice shelf is caused by this, because air temperatures have little effect on this glacier; ocean temperatures do, and our ocean temperature time series are only five to eight years long — too short to establish a robust warming signal.”
Muenchow says the massive chunk of ice is expected to eventually enter the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada, where it will break up into smaller icebergs.
That could take a while. Pieces of the 2010 calving can still be found along the Canadian coast as far south as Labrador, Muenchow said.
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We need to find an economical way to bring these glacial remnants close to land and route the pure fresh water to areas where it can be used instead of letting it melt into the sea and possibly interrupt the thermohaline circulation.
Yea what Tom said
Richard Pryor tried that in "Brewster's Millions".
Ways have already been developed to do exactly what you suggest. They won't be used. Why? I'll give you a hint: for the same reasons we aren't all driving electric cars, riding cross-country on high speed trains or turning on our computers with solar, wind or hydro generated power.
May the broken glaciers should be transported to the farmer in the Midwest to irrigate their farms.The corn they are raising ain't worth a thing due to drought.
Help!!!!!
Wow. 7.5 gallons per cubic foot ~8 pounds per gallon. I get 60 pounds per cubic foot of water. 27,878,400 square feet/square mile.
1.6 BILLION pounds per square mile @ 1foot thick. YTell us-how would YOU move it?
Max: it floats...
That is not ecomomic
Where are you at, I'll have my helicopter drop it on your head, maybe that would knock some sense into it.
What if we got a bunch of bags of ice and put it all around the glaciers to keep them cold would that work??? let me know and ill start the fundraising to keep the poles as cold as a coors light
nothing to see here folks. move along. hey quick, look over here at this dramatic article about blah blah blah blah.
uuh.. what were we talking about again?
oh yeah, that global warming shtuff. its a lie that al gore invented n stuff. i like turtles
It's kind of early to be that drunk, j... at least it is for the rest of us.
We'll be sure to "move along" from this vacuous comment as well.
Would that be the glacier formed during the ICE AGE when the earth was basically FROZEN?
That glacier?
Oh no, now ice from the ice age is thawing.
Where will it end?
"brings the glacier’s terminus to a location where it has not been for at least 150 years"
150 years? So much for Global Warming.
If you are no longer a republican, what are you? A) Libertarian (good for you!) B) Democrat (uh-oh, you drank the Obama kool-aid and stopped relying on truth & logic)
Name –
I'm a Liber-Repub-Acrat.
Want to buy carbon credits. You'll help me become part of the 1%.
I think j is really Mitt.
Well just heard of this Iceberg that killed my grandfather....Its pay back time....me and few whale wars activist are coming for blood....or water...you get the picture.... Iceberg better watch its back....its days are number....."Revenge!!!!!!!!!" lmao
This happens every few years. So I'll just sit back and wait for the Global Warming nuts to claim this as another "FACT" of global warming when it is just a natural occuring event.
I'm happy to see they were not too eager to blame "Global Warming".
I wonder what caused the break-offs seen "...150 years..." ago? Civil War campfires?
Civil War campfires? How absurd.
I think you meant General Sherman burning the South to the ground.
You can buy your "Carbon Credits" from me. Post your email and I'll send you an invoice. Don't wait, this offer won't last long.
Now for a limited time only, you get TWO credits for the price of one. That's right, TWO and if you act now, I'll throw in a neat little folder to put them in so you'll know where they are.
What next?
Never forget. 4/15/12.
Al Gore tried to tell us. Global warming is a real threat. Wake up world.
I'm glad you agree.
I have carbon credits for sale. See above post. Act now before it's too late.
We need more coal fired power plants!
all I have to say is........ So what!
Its not a problem if ice breaks off.... did any of u whako Goreites complain when North America was under a mile of ice 100,000 years ago? Let nature do its thing.... NO BIG DEAL!
I complained but you whacko nutter Rush-lovers didn't listen because your heads were buried so deep into the sand that you lost your minds.
What The...
I have an idea. You can stop driving your car and heating your home with anything but wood. You need to make a difference and change starts with you.......
The readers of this page would like to personally thank you for sharing the benefits of your extensive education in and study of climatology. Truly, yours is the most informed and well-reasoned comment I have ever read. We are all in your debt.
To Neil: The burning of wood won't stop global warming. It is another fossil fuel. We need to invest in fuel cells, solar, hydro, geothermal, wind, and wave power sources. And yes, we need to go to smaller cars and use them only for local trips (less than 20 miles). There should be reliable mass transit for any commuting/traveling that is more than 20 miles.
Increased deaths from cancer, respiratory illnesses, less potable water, increased storm intensity, scarcity of food, mass migrations of people from low-lying areas to the interior, wars fought over water and food, larger and more virulent insects, diseases (malaria, smallpox, cholera, perhaps even the plague). You say, NO BIG DEAL? Yeah, RIGHT!
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That's all fine and dandy for city dwellers. But because the U.S. is so big, mass transit is not efficient in rural areas. Its cost vs. effectiveness is appalling. We should stop buying one car per person in a family. My son just got his Drives permit; he wants to buy an old beat up car for himself. I told him he can use my car when I’m not using it. Mass transit is great for large cities and most urban areas because most urban areas are becoming large cities.
Ice melts when it is too hot!!!