Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica

caseyann

Huge iceberg breaks off Antarctica

[URL="javascript:showPlayer('antarctic_av.html')"] [/URL]Friday, 26 February 2010

iceberg the size of Co Wexford which broke from the Antarctic ice sheet earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe.While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer, a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water could result in less temperate winters in the north Atlantic, researchers have said.
The 2,550sq.km block broke off on 12 or 13 February from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, a 160km spit of floating ice protruding into the Southern Ocean from East Antarctica due south of Melbourne.
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Some 400 metres thick, the iceberg could fill Sydney Harbour more than 100 times over.:eek:

One thing after other!
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0226/antarctic.html

MonkeyTennis

Bulmers party!

mike65

Could be some confused Penguins when that washes up in Sydney Harbour

Saibh

Some pictures of iceberg from nasa

Dave!

It's just a conspiracy by climate scientists to get more funding ! If you look closely at the satellite images, you can see Al Gore with a chisel and a hammer

phasers

While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer

Let the future hippies worry about it

Mac daddy

Dave! wrote: »

It's just a conspiracy by climate scientists to get more funding ! If you look closely at the satellite images, you can see Al Gore with a chisel and a hammer

spotted him with a flamethrower instead!!!

It's down to climate change

/yawn

Rhyme

Dennis Quaid ACTIVATE!!

fletch...

Lets claim it and make our own country

Overheal

Isnt this exactly how the Day After Tomorrow started?

Lu Tze

Overheal wrote: »

Isnt this exactly how the Day After Tomorrow started?

The effects shouldn't begin until two days before the day after tomorrow...

smellslikeshoes

This doesn't immediately definitively point to global warming in my opinion. The piece of ice was being pushed by a large iceberg that broke off in the 1980s. Who is to say that the action of one iceberg pushing against a large piece of ice extending out to sea would not have happened anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer in Global warming but this piece was being pushed against, so shouldn't be used as an example by global warming activists.

Kur4mA

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Who is to say that the action of one iceberg pushing against a large peice of ice extending out to sea would not have happened anyway.

I AM SHURRUP! ITS THE GLOBAL BLEEDIN WARMIN RITE!

bonerm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAsq6jLqeLI

You're welcome.

stvincent

bonerm wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAsq6jLqeLI

You're welcome.

Lol, ty v much.

Another iceberg rolls off the Antartic ice production line, big deal!

Happens all the time.... about as predictable as spring following winter.

Run_to_da_hills

If this iceberg drifts this way it might introduce teddy bears into the country. :eek:

Biggins

It wasn't me, I didn't do it this time.

Atlantic Dawn

The cause of these breakages is the additional build up of ice and dropping temperatures in the Antarctic, the sooner they tackle global cooling the better.

Canis Lupus

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

This doesn't immediately definitively point to global warming in my opinion. The piece of ice was being pushed by a large iceberg that broke off in the 1980s. Who is to say that the action of one iceberg pushing against a large piece of ice extending out to sea would not have happened anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer in Global warming but this piece was being pushed against, so shouldn't be used as an example by global warming activists.

It's not so much an argument but a point. It seems to me that nowadays if something happens people say "THIS PROVES GLOBAL WARMING" or "It was a natural phenomenon (sp?)". Once people can decide to prove their own argument it then almost feels like it's inconsequential that something major has actually happened in nature. It's like.... Well clearly that ice was going to break off so it was global warming and therefore all is okay...

Well it's not okay imo... If something has happen, regardless of whether or not humans have directly caused it shouldn't we be worried about what it will do and shouldn't we look into ways that combat any ill effects said event might cause either now or in the future.

People seem to have gotten so wrapped up in proving the yes or the no of global warming that even if a global climate change isn't man made it's still going to **** us up so perhaps we should look at ways of fighting it.

minidazzler

caseyann wrote: »

iceberg the size of Co Wexford which broke from the Antarctic ice sheet earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe.While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer,]

Ah, see they are taking the Nostradamus approach...."it'll be AGES lads, we will be dead so never proven wrong, but maybe proven right"

Kasabian

An iceberg the size of Wexford is more interesting than Wexford.

ejmaztec

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

If this iceberg drifts this way it might introduce teddy bears into the country. :eek:

If it goes up to the Arctic, then comes down again, it might.:P


It'll be a penguin and a polar bear staring at each other, and both saying "what the fuck's that?"

smegmar

the iceberg probably better nightlife and better looking women too

Mike 1972

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Don't get me wrong, I'm a firm believer in Global warming but this piece was being pushed against, so shouldn't be used as an example by global warming activists.

+1

Dont pieces of ice break free from the Ice caps all the time and go floating off to cause occasional havoc as in a particularly well known instance back in 1912 ?

As long as there is a corresponding level of ice formation elsewhere in the polar regions there is no real issue (bar aforementioned occasional havoc)

BigEejit

The global warming nazi's would have you think that icebergs breaking off are a bad thing. But if icebergs never broke off wouldnt antartica just grow and grow and eventually the whole world would be a gigantic ice cube?

Jako8

Dave! wrote: »

It's just a conspiracy by climate scientists to get more funding ! If you look closely at the satellite images, you can see Al Gore with a chisel and a hammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9wmczxnT3c

He's serial.

bonerm

BigEejit wrote: »

The global warming nazi's would have you think that icebergs breaking off are a bad thing. But if icebergs never broke off wouldnt antartica just grow and grow and eventually the whole world would be a gigantic ice cube?

Hardly. It'd be a gigantic ice ellipsoid if anything.

thetonynator

lonad wrote: »

An iceberg the size of Wexford is more interesting than Wexford.

But you can't get wexford strawberrys from an iceberg . . .;)

Kasabian

thetonynator wrote: »

But you can't get wexford strawberrys from an iceberg . . .;)

Lettuce?

antodeco

I love icebergs! Nyom nyom tasty icecream

Voltex

.....well thats crap....I bought an investment property there funded by Anglo Irish Bank.

mink_man

its the size of luxembourg too!

Capt'n Midnight

Wasn't there one a while back the size of Belgium ?

*yawn* wake me up when someone sees a big one

Sam Kade

Canis Lupus wrote: »

.People seem to have gotten so wrapped up in proving the yes or the no of global warming that even if a global climate change isn't man made it's still going to **** us up so perhaps we should look at ways of fighting it.

So you are saying we should fight climate change even if it is caused by nature.

Rhyme

Sam Kade wrote: »

So you are saying we should fight climate change even if it is caused by nature.

Yes, that mother nature is such a b*tch.

But seriously though, that big an iceberg is going to add a whole lot more freshwater into the currents directly linked to the antarctic, we'll see an effect (possibly large) regardless of the protesting.

Amtmann

Nuke it.

Capt'n Midnight

Furet wrote: »

Nuke it.

LOL

you'd just end up with an iceberg with a hole in it , yes they have tried bombing small icebergs in the past to no avail. Pykrete is about the only thing tougher than ice.

Guy:Incognito

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

the only thing tougher than ice....

...is Chuck Norris.






I'm bringing Chuckie back.

ScumLord

mink_man wrote: »

luxembourg too!

Revenge of the Luxembourg. Great film.