Huge ice island breaks from Greenland

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ed-months.html

An ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists have revealed. The new ice island, which broke off on Thursday, will enter a remote place called the Nares Strait, about 620 miles south of the North Pole between Greenland and Canada. The ice island has an area of 100 square miles (260 square km) and a thickness up to half the height of the Empire State Building, said Andreas Muenchow, professor of ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware.

Muenchow said he had expected an ice chunk to break off from the Petermann Glacier, one of the two largest remaining ones in Greenland, because it had been growing in size for seven or eight years. But he did not expect it to be so large. 'The freshwater stored in this ice island could keep the Delaware or Hudson Rivers flowing for more than two years,' said Muenchow, whose research in the area is supported by the National Science Foundation. 'It could also keep all U.S. public tap water flowing for 120 days.' He said it was hard to judge whether the event occurred due to global warming because records on the sea water around the glacier have only been kept since 2003. The flow of sea water below the glaciers is one of the main causes of ice calvings off Greenland.

'Nobody can claim this was caused by global warming. On the other hand nobody can claim that it wasn't,' Muenchow said. Scientists have said the first six months of 2010 have been the hottest globally on record. The El Nino weather pattern has contributed to higher temperatures, but many scientists say elevated levels of man-made greenhouse gases are pushing temperatures higher. The initial discovery of the calving was made by Trudy Wohlleben of the Canadian Ice Service. The ice island could fuse to land, break up into smaller pieces, or slowly move south where it could block shipping, Muenchow said. The last time such a large ice island formed was in 1962 when the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved an island. Smaller pieces of that chunk became lodged between real islands inside Nares Strait.

So as the article states, this thing has actually been growing over the past few years and has obviously broken off because of its own weight not to mention the fact its summer in Greenland at the moment.

Its not global warming, its nature at its best.

[Nemo]

I blame the government and the EU!


I mean, its just one of those things that happens, no point trying to see what caused it, just make sure it doesnt get in the way of stuff.

[MrPinkPanther]

Global warming is an EU conspiracy to fund their Marxist agenda and get money out of us. Plus it causes cancer.

[Jordy]

Global warming is an EU conspiracy to fund their Marxist agenda and get money out of us. Plus it causes cancer.

Has somebody been reading the Daily Mail?

[Robbie]

It will probably come here seeking asylum or be made a member state

[Jordy]

It will probably come here seeking asylum or be made a member state

The penguins will all refuse to speak our language and take all the ******* jobs and houses!!

[alexxxxx]

Global warming is an EU conspiracy to fund their Marxist agenda and get money out of us. Plus it causes cancer.

and it will mean the illegal immigrant asylum seekers who are jobless and taking all our jobs off nice white middle class people will be coming too!

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Global warming is an EU conspiracy to fund their Marxist agenda and get money out of us. Plus it causes cancer.

Funny you should mention that, because the EU is one of the organisations who contribute to mass starvation thanks to world food prices being pushed up because of this global warming scare that tackles an issue which does not exist.

The diversion of land to bio-fuel production is a disaster.

and it will mean the illegal immigrant asylum seekers who are jobless and taking all our jobs off nice white middle class people will be coming too!

Well mentioning the EU again and in relation to jobs, the EU when it dumps its surplus of food on African markets causes many Africans to go unemployed and destroys the lives of poor African farmers, thus hurting the African economy more so all because of this global warming scare which again, tackles a non-problem. I believe you yourself have expressed doubt over the topic before.

So I guess although taking the pee, you both raise topics (the EU and jobs) that actually do play a big part in this scare - afterall there is a lot of money to be made out of this, as Al Gore has only proven.

[MrPinkPanther]

Don't worry guys. UKIPs MEPs, working within the institution they were set up to fight, will help us!

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Don't worry guys. UKIPs MEPs, working within the institution they were set up to fight, will help us!

Do you actually have nothing interesting to contribute or say on this topic (a topic you yourself believe in and are content with splashing billions on) or is the fact that the glaciers have been growing, not melting, a downer on the whole issue to you?