Have you ever seen an iceberg the size of New York ?
Here is something I saw in the news this morning; it totally shocked me. I think people should be aware of what is going on far from us, and even more when those things are mostly caused by us. It is very scary to see an iceberg the size of New York just fell of an ice bridge.
This is those kinds of events that make me realize, we truly need to do something about climate change, and not just when we feel like it, or when it is more convenient. It should become instinctive, as soon as we wake up in the morning, we should make the fight against climate change our main priority!
Think about it!
Read this and comment if it touches you or bring any thoughts to mind.
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent at Reuters
TROMSOE, Norway (Reuters) - An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday.
"The northern ice front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf has become unstable and the first icebergs have been released," Angelika Humbert, glaciologist at the University of Muenster in Germany, said of European Space Agency satellite images of the shelf […]
Nine other shelves -- ice floating on the sea and linked to the coast -- have receded or collapsed around the Antarctic peninsula in the past 50 years, often abruptly like the Larsen A in 1995 or the Larsen B in 2002.
The trend is widely blamed on climate change caused by heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels, according to David Vaughan, a British Antarctic Survey scientist who landed by plane on the Wilkins ice bridge with two Reuters reporters in January.[…]
Temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula have warmed by up to 3 Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) this century, Vaughan said, a trend climate scientists blame on global warming from burning fossil fuels in cars, factories and power plants.
Source:Reuters
Photo: Handout image shows a Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image from 27 April 2009 superimposed on an image from 24 April 2009. The margins of the collapsed ice bridge that formerly connected Charcot and Latady Islands are outlined in white.
REUTERS/ESA (Annotations by A. Humbert, Munster University)/Handout
Full article: Reuters.com
Posted by on 04/29 at 09:12 AM