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[LogicAirForce]

NPR article reigned in some of the fear of this for those who don't want to hyperventilate:

http://www.wbur.org/npr/536818782/massive-iceberg-breaks-free-in-antarctica

Thank you for posting this. Climate change has been a major source of anxiety and stress for me over the past few years, and the news this week about this impending calving has been freaking me out. I pretty much had a panic attack this morning when I heard it finally broke off. This article makes me feel a little better.

 

[SolarPowered]

wtf is lake erie and why is that always the benchmark used? i dont even know exactyl how big an american football field is but at least i can kind of roughly guage that when its used as a size reference. how many football fields is a trillion tonnes

If you want something more relatable or easy to imagine you can use Manhattan instead. This iceberg is about the equivalent of 263 Manhattans. That is pretty big.

 

[Keasar]

Great....

 

[Dynomutt]

Is this the one that Dubai is going to tow?

 

[Eusis]

Would refreezing water in the poles help the world at all?

I imagine if you COULD it would, but we don't have the technology to do something on this level.

 

[jstripes]

Make it the 51st state. Ice Delaware.

Move the US Capitol there. All problems solved.

 

[kswiston]

Is this the one that Dubai is going to tow?

That iceberg weighs more than the combined weight of all ocean freight in the history of humanity.

 

[Bregor]

Would refreezing water in the poles help the world at all?

Refrigeration technology just moves heat around, and creates more in the process due to inefficiencies. Without some way to move the heat off the planet, cooling the globe just doesn't work.

 

[Volimar]

What's calving? Doesn't sound good. RIP Earth.

It gave birth to a baby cow. Crazy how nature do that.

 

[Furio53]

Great....

This was already in the water.

 

[FreezeSSC]

This was already in the water.

I think its referring to the possibility of the Larsen C shelf disintegrating.

 

[Volimar]

Refrigeration technology just moves heat around, and creates more in the process due to inefficiencies. Without some way to move the heat off the planet, cooling the globe just doesn't work.

What if we prop the continents up on some concrete blocks?

 

[Lightning_Roller]

This could be bad. How bad....only time will tell.

 

[dallow_bg]

This was already in the water.

...... c'mon now.

 

[jett]

This is actually sad.

 

[Furio53]

...... c'mon now.

sorry? The whole thread is about this breaking off... the gif wasn't in response to anything specific.

 

[Keasar]

I think its referring to the possibility of the Larsen C shelf disintegrating.

That. This is just a start.

Apparently this berg was the "cork" that helped keeping the rest of the ice shelf up.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

NPR article reigned in some of the fear of this for those who don't want to hyperventilate:

http://www.wbur.org/npr/536818782/massive-iceberg-breaks-free-in-antarctica





It's an article written for a North American audience ... I'm sure you could easily Google an article from your own news service which will provide the size in something you're more familiar with.

For instance, using my calculations, it is approximately the size of 6.846.000 European struggle sandwiches:

Thanks for this. I don't know much about this stuff but this is very interesting to read.

 

[nekkid]

Save us, Dennis Quaid.

Spoiler

Yes, I know it was the Larsen B shelf.

 

[dallow_bg]

sorry? The whole thread is about this breaking off... the gif wasn't in response to anything specific.

Critical thinking required I suppose.

 

[BBboy20]

*read certain (many) posts*

No wonder we're doomed.

 

[jchap]

Thank god maybe now we can quit seeing weekly stories about how this iceberg could break off any minute. They have been talking about this for more than two years.

 

[Hermii]

This is only the beginning