The biggest glacial break ever recorded.

cool

glad someone thought so. lol

Beautiful.
Thanks fornposting it

Outstanding!

Watching this makes me wonder, is it climate change that's making the glaciers and poles melt? Or is it that it's just taken this long for residual ice from the ice age to melt?

That's a big damn chunk of ice.

It's cyclical.

cyclical due to the sun..

Epic OP..
5*

It's not melting, it's calving. This doesn't happen because it's hot, but because it snowed.

Snow falls on the land and doesn't melt, then more snow falls on top of it the next year, and the next. That snow compresses down and turns into a glacier. As more snow falls on top, the weight of the new snow causes the glacier to flow or grow. As long as more snow keeps falling, the glacier keeps growing until has filled up all the land and then starts flowing into the sea.

Once in the sea, the tidal forces start to work on it. This causes small crack, which get bigger and then eventually force chunks of the glacier to break off and float away as an iceberg. At this point, the ice still hasn't melted. It happens in both extremely cold and extremely hot years.

After a while, the iceberg gets picked up by a tide and is pulled to an area where the temperature is warmer and then it melts. If this didn't happen the entire planet would be covered in ice and we would all be dead.

FACT - POLAR ICE (north and south pole combined) is currently at the 30 year average. While Northern Hemisphere snow is at a 30 year high. (From satellite data.) The MSM will never mention that because it doesn't fit with their 'WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU SEND US ALL YOUR MONEY!' motif.

and no cocktail to match it,
damn shame

thermohaline current gets fucked up,
due to all the fresh water,
into the ice age we go.
day after tomorrow is just like this (it is a fiction movie ofcaurse)

Climate change/global warming tards in 3 ... 2 ... 1

THIS IS EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL WARMING!!

That whale popping up out of the ice was surreal.

Very interesting, thanks for the info man. That shed quite a bit of light on this for me.

bump

thanks :D

on the one hand: YIKES!
0n the other: OH, MY!!

Simply amazing footage. Great find; great thread post...thanks!

for coolness

probably both. only a moron denies that pumping huge quantities of chemicals measured in billions of tons/day known to trap heat within the earth's atmosphere does not cause warming. that being said, there are cyclical conditions that occur on the earth, for example during the age of the dinosaurs greenhouse gas levels were ~2x higher than they are now, although average temperatures were also considerably higher.

LOL.

It's black ice I think. NOT A WHALE.

This is gobshite. Google Dunedin Antartic research rather than listen to this arsehole.

Ice is melting, glaciers are receding at an accelerated rate, the seas are rising,,, So what's the difference between climate change and the "residual" end of the ice age?

ufo
lots of stuff will be floating about once all that ice has melted

haha! this particular glacier receded more in the last 10 years than the preceding 100 years. Dont let facts get in the way of your snow job!

One comes with a "justification" for getting rid of people.

Last Edited by Alien Technologist on 02/06/2013 05:04 AM