BREAKING NEWS: Giant iceberg heading on collision course for Australia!

There is a sub towing it. Fresh water is blue gold.

Gold star award for the Australian Antarctic Division using the acronym ADD.

Throw an evinrude on that motherfucker and turn the Outback into Australia's breadbasket.

LOL

Still waiting for the reports of a beached iceberg.

Yeah and pics, too, or it didn't happen!

CLICK ON THE LINK!

We'll see how that mofucker iceberg likes 110F on the coast.

No worries, mate. I doubt the berg can afford the moorage fees in Sydney harbour.

Sydney's on the East coast.

"Dr Young said an iceberg the size of B17B had not been seen so far north since the days when 19th century clipper ships plied the trade route between Britain and Australia.

"Icebergs do come from time to time and they can be very big, but it can be a long time before we spot one - so it's really a once-in-a-lifetime sighting."


But. . but I thought global warming was causing this. Seems it's happened before and in pre-CO2 era.

I did and it said it would break up long before it could reach land.

There is no beached iceberg.

Wouldn't it melt before it got there, being a very hot summer and all?

Actually it would be fairly brilliant if the Aussies were towing the berg to their country. They could melt it and bottle it and name it something like "Ancient Ice Water."

Great, does Australia have enough life boats. History teaches that iceberg collisions are usually pretty nasty. Look at the people of the Titanic.















(Yeah I know, Australia is not a ship - I as being funny)

How can anyone in their right mind (or who has any sense of the laws of physics and a sense of scale) think that an iceberg, no matter how big, will 'collide' with Australia!!??

I mean come on people; this is a new freakin' depth of dumbness, even for GLP.

- Australia can't exactly be 'holed' and sink!
- The iceberg will ground before it hits the coast
- As it enters warmer areas it will melt.
- Even a huge iceberg is miniscule compared with Australia.

I despair.

[link to news.yahoo.com]

Australia shipping alert over massive iceberg
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Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Yahoo! Bookmarks Print AFP/Australian Antarctic Division/Ho – A NASA satellite image of iceberg B17B (C), floating southwest off the West Australian coast. Australian … Fri Dec 11, 2:34 am ET
SYDNEY (AFP) – Australian authorities Friday issued a shipping alert over a gigantic iceberg that is gradually approaching the country's southwest coast.

The Bureau of Meteorology said the once-in-a-century cliff of ice, which dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north, was being monitored using satellites.

"Mariners are advised that at 1200 GMT on December 9, an iceberg approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,054 miles) south-southwest of the West Australian coast was observed," it said, giving the iceberg's coordinates.

"The iceberg is 140 square kilometres in area -- 19 kilometres long by eight kilometres wide."

Experts believe the iceberg -- known as B17B -- is likely to break up as it enters warmer waters nearer Australia, creating hundreds of smaller icebergs in a hazard to passing ships.

"It's still 1,700 kilometres away, so it's quite a long way away, it's not really on our doorstep yet but it's been heading steadily towards us," glaciologist Neal Young said Thursday.

Young earlier told AFP that an iceberg of that size had probably not been seen in the area since the days when 19th century clipper sailing ships plied the trade route between Britain and Australia.

The iceberg has been floating around Antarctica since shearing off the icey continent but had lately begun heading north because of ocean currents and weather conditions.

Its discovery comes after two other large icebergs were spotted further east, off Australia's Macquarie Island, followed by more than 100 smaller chunks heading towards New Zealand.

Young described the icebergs as uncommon, but said they could become more frequent if sea temperatures rise through global warming.

Quite normal. A good sign of a healthily growing ice cap calving bergs.

This is a small one.

Suggest you read the admiralty Pilot books for the southern oceans, they have pictures of real monsters going back to the dawn of photography and drawings before that by observers.

Cannot collide with Australia, currents dictate that.

Just as the oceans dictate global weather patterns not the air.

Typical fear mongering drama and hysteria.

You fuckin' idiot. You do realize it will run aground long before it reaches any part of the Australian coast?

Uh...Duuuuuh...Errrr

It is summer in Australia right now.

Doom (and you) F A I L.

Neat!

Is Australia annihilated by Al Gore's Global warming yet

Will Australia capsize?

Jaws scene with Australian accent..."Crikey, were gonna need a bigger country sport!"