An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Antarctica
Harry Hope
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An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Just 24 Hours
3 time-lapsed photos show the incredible disintegration of the
Filchner ice shelf in Antarctica.
By Dan Shapley
Jan, 13, 2010 - Afternoon
Within a 24-hour space, an area of sea ice larger than the state of
Rhode Island broke away from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf and
shattered into many smaller pieces.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA�s
Aqua and Terra satellites captured this event in this series of
photo-like images from January 12 and January 13, 2010.
Jan. 14, 2010 - Morning
The long, narrow tongue of ice is a bridge of sea ice linking the
A-23A iceberg to the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf in West Antarctica.
The ice bridge is fast ice, or sea ice that does not move because it
is anchored to the shore.
Compared to an ice shelf, the sea ice is a thin shell of ice over the
ocean.
The difference in thickness is visible in the images.
Jan. 14, 2010 - Afternoon
The taller, thicker Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf casts a visible shadow on
the ice bridge made of sea ice.
This particular ice bridge breaks up and reforms regularly.
Even though the images show a routine event, they provide a
spectacular view of the sometimes dramatic arrival of summer in the
Polar South.
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Harry
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Spit
Climate Realist
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> Harry
An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Antarctica (but
don't worry, this particular ice bridge breaks up and reforms
regularly)
Andy
"Harry Hope" <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Its called ' calving" and they reform when it gets cold again this june.
enigma
When it forms again it won't be as thick as it was.
Global fooling at work!
Bret Cahill
I M @ good guy
Excuse Earl, he moved to France a long time
ago and may have forgotten what the term
"routine event" means.
Realist
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> An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Just 24 Hours
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Notice how they always use the cheap size analogies to appeal to the brain-
dead masses and con them into believing in AGW?
I M @ good guy
wrote:
Calving goes on all the time, the more snow,
the more calving.
What is with the biased scare stories, you
don't get paid by the word like news writers,
do you?
Catoni
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> Harry
No surprise. Ice shelves regularly break up and then reform. Many
causes....
As they grow out over the water, they get over extended.. which
results in.,...
Stresses caused by the weight of the ice and the flexing up and
down from winds and tides. The area of the ice where it extends from
the land over water...
"Persistent winds, tidal action and pressure from the surrounding ice
pack may cause cracks to develop within the ice shelf: this producing
an ice island. (Holdsworth 1971, Jeffries 1985)
"Vibrations due to wave action cause a resonance (Definition of
Resonance: Resonance causes an object to move back and forth or up and
down. This motion is generally called oscillation. Sometimes the
oscillation is easy to see such as the motion of a swing on a
playground or the vibration in a guitar string. In other cases the
oscillation is impossible to see without measuring instruments. For
example, electrons in an electrical circuit can oscillate but it
happens on a molecular level.
Ultimately some of the energy in the oscillations has to be removed
from the object or the size of the oscillations get so large that the
object breaks. Taken from The Physics of Resonance that causes
stresses in the ice shelf to the point where a fracture can occur.
(Holdsworth & Glynn 1978)
"Strong tides associated with storm surges occur, creating a period of
time of intense pressure against the ice shelf, which causes the shelf
to crack. The prevailing winds then change, creating open water and
areas where the newly calved ice island can flow into. (Sackinger
1987)
Harry... Harry... Harry...... Please think about things before you
post and make yourself look foolish and uneducated...
Surely you can research these things yourself in books or
online before posting... or maybe go back to school..
Sirius
As they said, it is called calving, and it is nothing unusual (consider
this as a 'it's wheather, not climate' answer).
More over, ice melting anywhere in the world is no proof of any influence
of human activity on climate, even less some local usual event such as
this one.
buzz
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> An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Just 24 Hours
>
> 3 time-lapsed photos show the incredible disintegration of the
> Filchner ice shelf in Antarctica.
>
> By Dan Shapley
>
>
> Jan, 13, 2010 - Afternoon
>
> Within a 24-hour space, an area of sea ice larger than the state of
> Rhode Island broke away from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf and
> shattered into many smaller pieces.
>
> Aqua and Terra satellites captured this event in this series of
> photo-like images from January 12 and January 13, 2010.
>
>
> Jan. 14, 2010 - Morning
>
> The long, narrow tongue of ice is a bridge of sea ice linking the
> A-23A iceberg to the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf in West Antarctica.
>
> The ice bridge is fast ice, or sea ice that does not move because it
> is anchored to the shore.
>
> Compared to an ice shelf, the sea ice is a thin shell of ice over the
> ocean.
>
> The difference in thickness is visible in the images.
>
>
> Jan. 14, 2010 - Afternoon
>
> The taller, thicker Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf casts a visible shadow on
> the ice bridge made of sea ice.
>
> This particular ice bridge breaks up and reforms regularly.
>
> Even though the images show a routine event, they provide a
> spectacular view of the sometimes dramatic arrival of summer in the
> Polar South.
>
> ________________________________________________________
>
> Images at
> http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/antarctica-ice-sheet-break-up-47011404#ixzz0cnyCmrDe
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> Harry
From The Sunday Times
January 17, 2010
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown
A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers
by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders
by the United Nations body that issued it.
Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and
most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central
claim was the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the
Himalayas could vanish by 2035.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted
that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular
science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece
Liberal slogan: "Cool-Aid Cool-Aid, tastes great, Cool-Aid Cool-Aid,
can't wait".
Barack Hussein Obama...mmm mmm mmm
Send HIM to Pakistan to fight Osama...mmm mmm mmm
Simple-minded lying dummycrats (the party that birthed the KKK) and
liberals...morons electing morons.
Sirius
> A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers
> by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders
> by the United Nations body that issued it.
>
[...]
> In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted
> that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular
> science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece
Another extract :
The New Scientist report was apparently forgotten until 2005 when WWF
cited it in a report called An Overview of Glaciers, Glacier Retreat, and
Subsequent Impacts in Nepal, India and China. The report credited
Hasnain's 1999 interview with the New Scientist. But it was a campaigning
report rather than an academic paper so it was not subjected to any
formal scientific review. Despite this it rapidly became a key source for
the IPCC when Lal and his colleagues came to write the section on the
Himalayas.
I M @ good guy
Has
"He is astonished they "misread 2350 as 2035. The authors deny the
claims."
been proven wrong?
tunderbar
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> Harry
How many years in a row are you morons going to report this? Every
fucking year an ice shelf collapses. Some years more than one.
Cat_in_awe
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> An Ice Shelf the Size of Rhode Island Breaks Up in Just 24 Hours
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> 3 time-lapsed photos show the incredible disintegration of the
> Filchner ice shelf in Antarctica.
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Gravity is a bitch.
Cat_in_awe
Harry's a robot. Nobody's there.