"Giant Antarctic Icebergs and Crushing Existential Dread" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2017 9:26 p.m. PST |
"I went to Antarctica 20 years ago, and I didn't care about ice shelves. I noticed one at last when the blinding white of the ice, struck up against an abidingly black ocean, made me understand at last why the penguins all around me and the orcas occasionally surfacing a few dozen feet away had the same basic color scheme. Evolution ain't stupid. But evolution isn't smart, either, or we humans would be much better at perceiving patterns without such obvious visual clues. Like, when a 1.1 trillion-ton, 2,200-square-mile piece of ice breaks off of the Antarctic Peninsula—the fiddly spit-curl in the upper left1 of most maps of the continent—we might be able to see it not just as megasized glaciological action but as yet another piece of the global weirdness, increasing in magnitude and frequency, that tells us Earth is getting hotter, the seas are rising, and we are all in trouble. Alas, no. On its own, a massive iceberg unconsciously uncoupling from the Larsen C ice shelf won't raise sea levels along the world's coastlines—the newly-calved iceberg was already floating. Researchers from the UK-based Project Midas have been watching the region for decades and expected the break-up; they were there to be supportive just as they were when Larsen A split in 1995 and Larsen B collapsed in 2002…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 13 Jul 2017 11:55 p.m. PST |
I say let's party like it's the end of the world! Dan
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| Tango01 | 14 Jul 2017 10:38 a.m. PST |
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| Mithmee | 14 Jul 2017 12:01 p.m. PST |
You do know that this has been happening for thousands of years. Ice comes & Ice goes But there will always be Icebergs |
Shagnasty  | 14 Jul 2017 2:45 p.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 14 Jul 2017 3:33 p.m. PST |
The icebergs are encroaching more and more. Just this last weekend my fridge iced up. It was a disaster. Dan |
 StoneMtnMinis | 15 Jul 2017 5:41 a.m. PST |
Always consider the source. In this day and age of fake news, that advice rings more true than ever. |
| StoneMtnMinis | 15 Jul 2017 5:41 a.m. PST |
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| 14Bore | 23 Jul 2017 1:39 p.m. PST |
Best thing read so far is that iceberg has been floating and its not doing anything it hasn't been doing for years. |
| Martin From Canada | 23 Jul 2017 1:50 p.m. PST |
Best thing read so far is that iceberg has been floating and its not doing anything it hasn't been doing for years.
But, that ice was acting as a flying buttress for the rest of the ice shelf. Without support the land ice will slink ever faster into the sea and start calving like crazy. Look at Dr. Richard Alley's Carson Lecture last year about the importance of flying buttresses with regards to glaciers. YouTube link |
| Martin From Canada | 23 Jul 2017 1:59 p.m. PST |
Oops, wrong link: youtu.be/swxf_R1R6QA?t=34m24s Here's another explanation about how the process can unfold: link
(P.S. as for sources, even if it's Rolling Stone, this graphic is more or less exactly like the numerous graphics about calving and glacial collapse in my undergrad physical geography textbooks. I don't feel bad about the source) |
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worries about not losing his rules stuff.
