On Mar 26, 1:16*pm, Tegiri Nenashi wrote:
On Mar 26, 10:38*am, Tunderbar wrote:





On Mar 26, 10:57*am, Roger Coppock wrote:

Huge Chunk Of Antarctic Ice Collapses
Global Warming Blamed For Ice Shelf Collapse That Puts Larger Area At
Risk

Please see:
ttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/25/tech/main3968165.shtml

Antarctica is 5.4 million square miles in area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica

160 square miles is nothing.

.00002963 of the ice mass.

At that rate it would take 1000 years to lose .02963 of the ice mass.
If that were to happen once a year every year for 1000 years.

Now that is underwhelming.

Well, back in 2002 3,250 sq miles iceberg made a headline:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larsen_Ice_Shelf

That is like 20 times more?

So, extrapolating the trend, we may assume, ice breakage slowed down,
and is scheduled to completely stop. Question: where would the snow
accumulated in the vast antarctinc interior go? Question #2, how does
this event fit into the falling global temperatures picture? The ice
pack coverage in Antarctica slightly grew, and yet the sky (oops, the
iceberg) is falling?- Hide quoted text -

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Even bigger ice breakage event:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_B15

OMG, 17 miles wide ice shelf collapsed! So cranking away 17 miles of
ice, say every decade, is it too much or too little. OK, consider:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ice_Shelf

It moves 1.5 meters *a day*. An exersize for number phobic environuts:
without ice breakage events how long would it take the Ross Ice Shelf
to reach New Zealand?