Long-time readers will know that there is nothing amiss with global warming, contrary to what climatologists believe. (1)
Here is SaLuSa on the subject:
“Global warming is currently very much the topic of the day. … What is not fully taken into consideration is that your Sun is changing, and is by far the main reason that the changes are taking place. In time they will settle down and you will have more temperate conditions throughout the world. The extremes of weather as you have always experienced, will no longer occur and life will become more pleasant and totally bearable.
“As the changes are brought about they will open up opportunities to receive the higher energies. It will enable the cleansing of the old and allow the new to manifest.” (2)
The calving of this mammoth iceberg does appear to show the progress of global warming.
New Image Reveals Massive Greenland Iceberg
Aug 13, 2010 1:37 PM ET
By OurAmazingPlanet Staff
https://www.ouramazingplanet.com/ice-breaks-off-greenland-glacier-0447/
The ASTER instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft captured this image of a massive iceberg from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier on Aug. 12, 2010. Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team.
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The picture was taken by NASA’s ASTER instrument on the Terra satellite on Aug. 12 and shows the enormous chunk of ice, about 97 square miles (251 square kilometers) in size, which broke off the glacier located along the northwestern coast of Greenland.
Petermann Glacier is one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland that terminate in floating shelves. The glacier connects the great Greenland ice sheet directly with the ocean.
When the iceberg broke off, the Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 43-mile- (70-kilometer-) long floating ice shelf, according to researchers at the University of Delaware.
The recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years.
Icebergs calving off the Petermann Glacier are not unusual. Petermann Glacier’s floating ice tongue is the Northern Hemisphere’s largest, and it has occasionally calved large icebergs.
Scientists are monitoring the movement of the iceberg closely. If it moves out into the narrow Nares Strait, there is the potential it could interfere with or block the loss of Arctic sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean into Baffin Bay, a sea that connects the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The ice could also eventually pose a hazard to shipping.
It covers an area of 30.7 by 19.5 miles (49.5 by 31.5 km) and is located at 81.1 degrees north latitude, 61.7 degrees west longitude, about 620 miles (1,000 km) south of the North Pole.
The last time such a massive ice island formed was in 1962 when Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved a 230 square-mile (600 square-km) island, smaller pieces of which became lodged between real islands inside Nares Strait. Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands in 2001 (34 square miles, or 88 square km) and 2008 (10 square miles, or 26 square km). In 2005, the Ayles Ice Shelf disintegrated and became an ice island (34 square miles) about 60 miles (97 km) to the west of Petermann Fjord.
In July, a chunk of ice the size of Manhattan fell off of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier.
- Images: Glaciers Before and After
- Expedition Strikes Ancient Bedrock Beneath Greenland Ice
- In Photos: Trekking to a Treacherous Glacier
Footnotes
(1) See more on climate change at https://www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/fc/what1.html#changes1