Giant iceberg breaks off Antarctic glacier

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An iceberg has broken off Pine Island Glacier (PIG) on the edge of Antarctica, according to satellite images taken Tuesday by the European Space Agency.

The Pine Island Glacier recently spawned an iceberg over 300 square kilometres that very quickly shattered. This image, captured Tuesday by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, shows the freshly broken bergs in detail. A story about a glacier shedding mass at the edge of the world, threatening to raise ocean levels and potentially contribute to untold environmental change.

He pointed to an "imbalance" in the glacial system, which meant the impacts of warming temperatures, warmer ocean water and declining of snowfall were not allowing the glacier to replenish itself. And only a few days later, the glacier, also referred to as PIG, "spawned piglets," ESA said -- in a process known as calving -- and "many large" icebergs were formed. The largest of them was so big, it was even given a name: B-49.

But it has been losing ice over the past 25 years. "Since the early 1990s, the Pine Island Glacier's ice velocity has increased dramatically to values which exceed 10 meters a day," the space agency said in a"Its floating ice front, which has an average thickness of approximately 500 meters, has experienced a series of calving events over the past 30 years, some of which have abruptly changed the shape and position of the ice front," the ESA said.

 

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Check out how many airplanes are flying, ocean containers ships, transport trucks on the road just for a 24 hour period. Then try to comprehend why nature is giving us serious warning signs. Government silly carbon taxes/credits are absolutely useless.

Normal.

Yeah this will happen every year when its warming up, no one is interested in solving it, Pipelines will reduce all emissions, but we still use Diesel burning fuel to deliver it, and were now going to be using more to deliver it to the East Coast of Canada thanks to JT.

Wow the same thing it's been doing for 180000 years

Icebergs break away all the time, doesn’t mean it global warming.

RUN!

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