From the BBC: ‘Iceberg the size of Luxembourg threat‘ – click image for video and watch the collision of two giant ice masses. Of course 50 years ago, such things would likely go unnoticed without satellite imagery.
They write:
A vast iceberg that broke off eastern Antarctic earlier this month could disrupt marine life in the region, scientists have warned.
They say the iceberg, which is 78km long and up to 39km wide, could make it harder for the area’s colonies of Emperor Penguins to find food.
But British and Australian scientists disagree on whether it could also cause major problems to our own weather patterns.
Well so far, nobody at the BCC is blaming the collision on Global Warming:
BBC tells the truth – shock horror! – iceberg not caused by global warming
But I don’t think Joe Romm has weighed in on it yet. There’s still time. At least it’s not a bridge in Minnesota.
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There is still plenty of ice there http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/s_plot_hires.png
Amazing!! How sensational of a story can you make out of this garbage?
Give me a freakin’ break here. You mean to tell me, that this event, an event that has probably occurred thousands of times throughout history, is now, suddenly, going to be this catastrophic? And exactly how is this going to cause “major problems with our weather patterns.” ?
Total and utter BS (bad science)!!!
Notice they didn’t even blame the formation of the cracks on global warming. Makes you wonder why all the other previous cracks in floating ice shelves WERE blamed on global warming. Thank GAWD for rascally juvenile pranks such as copying emails and posting them on the web. Such a game changer.
debreuil (10:49:23) : “I’m starting to realize the BBC isn’t pro or anti anything. It just will print the most sensational headline available.”
Oh, great, Debreuil. I guess next week we’ll see:
“GLOBAL WARMING REVEALED AS GIGANTIC HOAX”
BC Bob
We had a health scare in Sydney some years ago when scientists instally new monitoring equipment and found our qwater supply was badly contaiminated.
I (foolish me) spent many weeks furiously boiling water and even used it to clean my teeth. So terified I was.
After some months, when nobody fell ill, it was decided that the bugs had always been there.
The only change was an increased ability to monitor them.
BUT AGW is REAL – be very afraid
(or was that pre climategate – I really can’t remember).
jorgekafkazar (19:32:21) :
” I guess next week we’ll see:
“GLOBAL WARMING REVEALED AS GIGANTIC HOAX”
Yes we will – eventually
Talk about one picture being worth 1000 words.
So you see there was this big long pier sticking out into the harbor, and this ginormous tourist cruise ship comes along and rams it right near where it joins the shore lne, so the whole pier falls in the water and starts to float away.
Nothing more to see here folks; just move along; we’re going to fine the skipper of the cruise ship, and that will be that.
We are going to hire somebody to see if they can weld the pier back on the shore again; they said something about being able to weld piers with a steam hose or something like that.
These climate worry warts need to get a life. How many years has this 60 mile long popsicle been wandering around the southern ocean, waiting to spoil somebody’s day.
Well so now they have two of them to worry about.
Well at least they are a lot more credible than errant meteorites, that are supposed to be a threat to us.
Keith Minto (19:00:35) :
So then, X Mertz the spot eh?
Somewhat OT, but here’s a guy James Balog who has some interesting information, and some very wrong information, even though he has kinda missed the point, in this TED talk “The Earth has a fever”…
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/628
Steve Schapel (00:25:12) :
It’s just unbelievable how much discredited non-science these environ-mentalists can spew in a matter of minutes to a gullible audience. But the photos were great though. Is this guy by any chance the same one who used to troll around here for a while, and now acts as the resident troll over Tamino’s Closed Minds?
tjexcite (11:50:07) :
They don’t need any help with their alarmist ideas, please don’t give them more. 😉
DaveE.
Yesterday’s printed Daily Telegraph had a report about this. At the end, following a quote from Dr Massom, the phrase “climate change” inevitably appeared. But wait….
Here is the quote from the report:
“He added that the calving was not related directly to climate change”.
How the world has changed….
Chris
The BBC has no scientists on its staff now because they recruit almost exclusively through Guardian Newspaper advertisements.
How much of this stuff is actually a quotation from a scientist, and how much is garble from a journalist? I think most ocean scientists would agree that the production of bottom water in the North Atlantic, which is the coldest and densest bottom water available, is local to conditions in the North Atlantic; and is also the reason for mild conditions in northern Europe. It is not affected by an iceberg the size of Tasmania circling the Antarctic.
As a resident of Luxembourg, I’m delighted that it was used as a reference. Perhaps now fewer people will say “where’s that?” when I tell then where I live. But I do wonder why it was used for comparison. BTW, my mother was Welsh, so Wales would have worked for me as well.
minnesinger
You live on an iceberg in Antarctica? Wow!
I wonder if the Australian government is considering sending out icebreakers to chop these giant icebergs into smaller chunks. I have no idea whether or not any good purpose would be served by doing this or how inherently dangerous such a mission might be…