>A slab of ice nearly twice the size of Rhode Island is cracking off of an Antarctic glacier, and one scientist says rapid growth in the giant rift between it and the southern continent means its break-off is inevitable in a few months’ time.
>The giant ice block is part of the Larsen C ice shelf, which is the leading edge of one of the world’s largest glacier systems.
>In November, a team of scientists in NASA’s Operation IceBridge survey flew over the rift to confirm it’s at least 70 miles long, 300 feet wide, and one-third of a mile deep.
>MacGregor was more hesitant in December with his estimate for when Larsen C’s iceberg would calve.
>“Maybe a month, maybe a year,” he said. “The more we study these rifts, the better we’ll be able to predict their evolution and influence upon the ice sheets and oceans at large.”
>But scientists agree the iceberg will calve at some point – and sooner rather than later.
>When the block does break off, it will be the third-largest in recorded history. MacGregor said it’d “drift out into the Weddell Sea and then the Southern Ocean and be caught up in the broader clockwise … ocean circulation and then melt, which will take at least several months, given its size.”
WOW IT MUST TOTALLY BE OUR FAULT, BETTER START PAYING DOUBLE ON MY CARBON CREDITS AND THAT'LL KEEP THE ICE JUST WHERE IT SHOULD BE, RIGHT?!?!
David Cruz
...
Colton Flores
Kek isn't real
Mason Foster
>Glacier. >You know, those giant ice thingies that are known for moving and breaking off into the ocean. >Holy shit! One really big one is doing that exact thing that they have been doing for millions of years! >This is so shocking. >It's almost like the glacier is moving and breaking off into the ocean!
Grayson Taylor
This ice shelf has existed for at least 10.000 years. Breakoffs like this are VERY rare.
Jack Sullivan
>Antarctica melts >all of the leftie cancer lives in coastal cities
This shit couldn't happen quicker. I'm burning some tires in my backyard just to speed it up
Grayson Rogers
Antarctic ice is expected to grow for decades due to precipitation. Eventually its bulk causes rifts and collapse. Why are you retarded?
Xavier Cruz
No, the deaths will overwhelmingly occur the at the suburban retards who voted for Trump.
Parker Lewis
>Breakoffs like this are VERY rare.
Then, we should be celebrating. Yet, I feel unsatisfied, let's see if we can beat the high score and break off something MUCH larger before my time on earth ends.
Jaxson Mitchell
...
Liam Nelson
Meteors that can wipe out life hit the earth very rarely too.
Nicholas Anderson
Cool. It will cool down the ocean.
Robert Collins
What the fuck are you talking about?
Leo Gray
lol'd yeah get the freeze ray out, make sure that sucker doesn't thaw
Brody Perez
>No more global warming. Oh shit, in your face, environmentalists.
Ryan Price
This is now a /comfy/ antarctica thread.
Samuel Bennett
I've had this useless thought ever since I was a child when I see stuff like this.
>imagine if we could move loads of glaciers to a desert, like Australia's desert. With magic or something.
Just imagine it. The glaciers absence makes the sea level go down, they melt in the middle of Australia and create new life.
I say Australia instead of the Sahara because the Sahara has a human problem.
So I just think and think about what if, even though the initial premise is impossible.
Ayden Reyes
CHECKED
SHADILAY AND MAY HE BRING LIGHT UPON THE WORLD!
Joseph Cox
It's almost like earth cycles through everchanging climate changes due to fluctuations in sun activity and macro events like meterorites and supervolcanoes. >really makes you ponder
Matthew Bennett
Good, hopefully it will melt and drown coastal urbanites.
Most on the right aren't refuting global warming, they're saying it doesn't matter. Everybody could revert to stone age technology, it would stop it at this point. If you want industries and jobs, you'll have to deal with some pollution and global warming.
Evan White
Who cares obama is the president while this is happening so it's not trumps fault.
And Obama believes in it yet he didn't prevent this from happening
Mason Walker
...
Evan Reed
What do you goys think is down there?
I think the idea of a nazi base is plausible yet quite romanticized.
Personally I believe it is the entrance to both the Garden of Eden and to Hell. He who reaches the entrance will have the ability to choose between embodying either Christ or the Antichrist, and his actions will lead human consciousness to their final destination.
Jayden Richardson
Itsbecauseof global cooling. AKA climate change.
Carson Gomez
>XDDDD DRUMPF LE DRUMPFA XDDDDDDDDD Saged and reported.
Gavin Anderson
No, this is obviously happening because someone put a plastic bottle in the paper recycle bin. And probably stabbed a kitten.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Any /comfy/ bedtime apocalypse movie suggestions?
Jaxson Wilson
Im talking about the suburban (and rural) retards who overwhelmingly voted for Trump that will be hit by climate change disproportionally.
We're talking about climate change, Drumpfie.
Evan Nguyen
too much to read
Oliver Rivera
A glacier is being a glacier.
Daniel Baker
>“Maybe a month, maybe a year,” And then in a year when it still hasn't happened, they'll say "maybe a year, maybe two" and so on.
William Martin
This anthropomorphizing the weather is like, how people treated old gods, right? We're suppose to pray and sacrifice a goat, and the ice will go back, right?
There's this deification of "the way it always has been" that makes me wonder how hypothetical sentient dinosaurs would've blamed themselves for the asteroid.
Gabriel James
Did you just assume it's bodyform as glacier?
Aiden Bennett
Reminds me of futurama
>announcer: solving the problem once and for all >girl: but... >announcer: ONCE AND FOR ALL
Daniel Peterson
I better get there soon. Need ice for martini,
Jayden Stewart
>Assuming its gender OUT.
William Thomas
Shit, sorry, I meant to say "amorphous solid semi liquid unwarm passively mobile force."
Jose Johnson
Da erf Doing erf things.
Jason Williams
It already happened at another part of the glacier, silly Drumphkelskin.
kek,I just realised that Holland will be completely under water if all the ice melts
Noah Fisher
How will Antartica ever recover? or How can Greenland compete?
Chase Allen
Wronnnnng
Hudson Bell
You need to think about the african coasts and cities there. :D :DDD
Samuel Kelly
The real question has to be asked. When this massive chunk of ice falls into the water... will Belfast be able to make a ship big enough to get sunk by it?
Chase Williams
Better quality. We're at the tipping point. This is the beginning of the end. Change is not supposed to happen at these speeds. Read a book you fucking retards.
Jace Scott
kek says kys
Liam Morris
We will be the next Atlantis
Carter Baker
oh fuck
plot twist: it's this guy
Oliver Torres
>third largest in recorded history So we've had two of these (((berg))) bigger than this one and we've all somehow survived and we're not all under water? Kickoff with the global warming hoax you maggot.
Jaxson Nelson
Lol, third largest. Way to sound the alarms. Also who cares? It's ice.. And are you gonna pay me c02 reparations for all the glaciers you melted during the ice age? That was all your fault. RIP glacierbros
Lincoln Lopez
>nothings down there goys, just a bunch of ice, don't go there, its for your own good
John Butler
tow one by it and use some kind of aqueduct
Jeremiah Thomas
don't you already build walls to keep water out?
Lincoln Scott
>(((Iceberg)))
Sup Forums was right again!
Tyler Peterson
Oh shit, someone get the Antarctica thread up so we can discuss how Nazis are responsible
Aiden Hughes
Durban and all the poo in loos will drown in SA if water rises
Logan Torres
I think the Anunnaki is down there.
Robert Scott
Trump getting elected is the cause of the glacier breacking off.
So your'e saying its a hillary supporter?
Christopher Bell
Oh yes.
Big walls.
Matthew Nelson
Wow, sounds bad. You better work hard on lowering your carbon footprint Bas.
Caleb Cook
Honest question, do scientists think these glaciers just flow and grow forever and never break? They must understand at least basic physics?
Evan Turner
Shut up
I'm saying that the policies you support are the reason for this.
Landon Diaz
>When the block does break off, it will be the third-largest in recorded history. That doesn't mean much when the gap between the gap between the current 2nd and 3rd is huge.
2nd largest - 5,390 square km 3rd largest - 140 square km
Here's an interesting bit of info on the largest ever which was 11,000 square km: >Scientists believe that the enormous piece of ice broke away as part of a long-term natural cycle, which occurs every fifty to one hundred years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_B-15
Connor Clark
>What are ICE AGES
>what is the fact that ice caps are an ANOMALY
>what is the fact that the Earth has been ice free for 90% of its existence
>what is the fact that the Earth is warming regardless if humans exist or not
muh carbon taxes, pay them goy
Mason Jones
Shun the non believer. Shun. Shhhhhunnnnnn.
Charles Ramirez
>change is not supposed to happen at these speeds >implying there's a set rate >what are interglacial periods
I guess volcanic eruptions and other events have never altered the rate at which the earths climate has changed throughout history.
>calls others retard >thinks a time period of 40 years is an acceptable scale to measure climate change on a planet that is millions of years old.
You're the one that's retarded desu.
Easton Hughes
This is simple logic. The earth is cooling and always has been so it is logical to tax, on a global scale if possible, those resources used to keep people warm.
People today are under the impression other people, complete strangers and many in positions of power, seek to help them. Where along the line they became so deluded is still up for debate.
Brandon Nelson
>Rare >10,000 years Geological time is a thing. 10,000 years is but a snippet. Planetary evolution may kill us all in the next year, it will certainly wipe out the human race at some time. Get over it. This is much bigger than all of us and our feel good snowflake I matter because I'm special hugbox existence.
Isaiah Cooper
None of the links or researchers mention this being caused by climate change.
Lucas Harris
PRAISE KEK
Gabriel Gray
This species has existed for at least 200.000 years. Idiots like this are VERY rare.
You can prevend these things from further happening by cutting your carbon emissions.
Also a gentle reminder that it's of the size of delaware. But i bet your mind can't comprehend that.
It will not
Chase Carter
>Antarctic glacier Was that Leaf telling the truth? Is there really a temple down there?
Xavier Bailey
its called anthrogenic climate change. read a damn book, commie scum.
Jose James
its called climate change not global warming liberal retard
Carson Ramirez
Won't the ice grow back?
Caleb King
It's not a Goddamn God you stupid liberal cuck, the hive cities filled with the kikes and niggers that support you are what will sink into the ocean first.
Owen King
Praise
John Murphy
if a big enough meteor hits the climate chages too
Adam Brown
its body most likely frozen there or he wants let humanity into encient cities
Hudson Jones
Nope, that is the whole point kiddo. They take thousands of years to grow.
Alexander Sanders
What's to defend? Climate change is real and climate change is good. Civilized countries will adapt and survive. Ivans and Leafs will thrive. Shit tier countries will drown. If anything we should be burning more fossil fuels.
Lucas Jones
Anyone who doesn't find this alarming should be purged as the cancer they are.
David Clark
probably not, other than christ and antichrist i think there just old city or even just remains of it
Asher Bell
And what the fuck do you want people to do about it? Go there and dump ice cubes?
Carson Cox
>AH! AFTER 10,000 YEARS I'M FREE!
Ryder Gomez
It is frigid and deadly.
Ayden Brooks
Ofourse it will.
Kevin White
>A slab of ice nearly twice the size of Rhode Island
So not even the size of New Jersey. Big whoop, let me know when we have an Ohio-sized chunk floating around.
Juan Turner
Obama's had 8 years in the most powerful position in the world to stop this from happening
