World's largest iceberg on the move after dislodging from ocean floor
Satellite imagery from recent months shows Antarctica's A23a gradually heading north toward open water after breaking free from the ocean floor last November. Iceberg researcher Dr. Andrew Meijers joins CBS News to discuss.
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everything's larger than Rhode Island....
Aloha 🌺
And yet ppl keep moving here.... whyyy
Ha! 😆🤣Now that's funny, it's too bad that a chunk of Antarctica just floated off and is headed to a town near you is nothing to laugh about!
@@robertward8035 not Hawai'i though
I'm not. And I know because I've been to Rhode Island.
Who knows what may be lurking in that ancient ice ?
Probably deadly microorganisms
The word “ancient”, idk why it gives me the creeps.
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, for one thing.
Your next panic.......
Crashed aircraft
I grew up on the east coast of Canada (on the island of Newfoundland). It's quite common to see ice burgs floating past in the Atlantic. As many times as we see it, it still takes your breath away. Pictures never do them justice. It's something that really has to be experienced. Magnificent things, truly. And beautiful in their own right.
Wow. That has to be amazing ❤
And normal. Not cLiMaTe ChAnGe
@@rvroutdoors2131it’s amazing that there are still people who deny it’s happening. The cause I can maybe see the debate, but the fact that you think it’s completely the same is insanity
Very Nice. Yeah to Cold for me.
Absolutely. I remember the lookout on Titanic "That's a Magnificent thing ahead, truly. And beautiful in its own right. Think I'll just drink it in a while.... Well time flies better call down & tell 'em I guess". You see this is what happens when you hire Fine Arts graduates as crew.
He done a brilliant job taking the last question back on topic for the short TV opportunity he had to articulate the severity of the symptom. Sacrificed talking about himself. Such a rare quality these days. Fair play to him.
Climatologists are becoming very good at public speaking because of all the stern warnings.
Where as she represents everything wrong with corporate puppet journalism. She was so concerned about the texture and color of the ice. CBS News has become Fox news for the Republicans who refuse to vote instead of voting against Republicans and think they did a good deed.
well c'mon why do we need him when we have elon musk? are you trying to say we need more than 1 climate celebrity?
What about all the Port warnings?@@masterdecats6418
They always want to push their ridiculous man made climate change narrative. Right after he talked about it being completely natural. If they bring up man made climate change I stop listening.
I had a dream several years ago, that felt so real. I was overlooking a river that flowed into New York City, (I live in Oklahoma and have never been to NYC) and a great big iceberg floating nearby in the ocean. A huge chunk of the iceberg broke off, sending a big tidal wave into downtown NYC. The wall of water crashed through the streets and skyscrapers. It was so real and destructive, I’ve never forgotten it. Feels like it’s still coming.
That's intense. 😮
Hey i saw that movie
It's gonna melt before it reaches NY
Yeah we all saw the day after tomorrow . 😂
Who knows what might happen these days, the worlds gone mad
Just in time for the maiden voyage of Titanic 2
Yep 🚢
I watched the invester presentation for that. It was like an hour long tour of the ship and they spent a solid 20 mins on the lifeboats.
haha. ooooh bad omen!
That is a dark coincidence damn
Time for a 1970's style disaster movie. ( Airport 1975 - '77 - '79 / Towering Inferno / Earthquake / The Andromeda Strain / The Poseidon Adventure )
I could picture this lady going on safari, and getting out of the jeep to look at all the pretty animals
I could, as well. Seems quite gullible as well.
Right but that’s like 90% of tourists, regardless.
Right, so, I'm a professional journalist and I just wonder what it is that makes you lions so interested in eating us ...
But staying with this analogy, it would be like the safari guide not explicity telling her something's extremely bad with her interpretation of safety. Scientists have always had a problem with being too conservative, not telling the public just how serious our predicament is, and any scientists that do say it how it is are ostracised. crazy world, don't look up indeed
@@irenafarm Not all! My take? Anyone with experience raising livestock would not be naive with wild animals on a safari. We understand how things can go sideways in a split second!
It’s kinda amazing that there’s a piece of ice larger than a US state
I would be more impressed if it were Texas :)
@@janetpearson1455and it would be even more impressive if it was larger than the whole U.S.
Yeah...someone should scoop it up.. There's millions to be made.
Its call antarctica lol
@@user-yq4rq3zu4y there was a time when there was no ice on the planet
Remember in The Day After Tomorrow, when the ice shelf broke off and they said it was the size of Rhode Island
I love that movie!
You sure it wasn't a Simpsons episode?
😮
"I'm 30 going on 300,000" ~ The Iceberg
I’m way older than that.
😅😂😂😂😂 300 million to be exact 💯
@bwfvc7770 it so plays, but I prefer "I'm 30 going on 300," when asked my age. A little playfulness never hurt anybody except women who regret failing to have kids.
@bwfvc7770 "Hello, this is Jesus. Do you have time to talk about NFTs?"
Best comment. Lol.
Love how she tried to take the seriousness off of the issue by ending the segment with him tapping himself on the back and gloating but he redirected the convo by putting an emphasis on how serious it is and why ppl like him must study what is happening. Very rare these days indeed.
A science teacher in Twin Falls, Idaho I worked with spends her Summers in Antarctica studying this iceberg.
shorter commute so now a smaller carbon footprint.
She will have to find a new one to study after this one melts in the boiling ocean.
That must have been a nice change of scenery from Idaho.
I wonder what deadly virus are gonna unthaw from 30k ago lol
Good job to the journalist showing interest and a contagious excitement
She's very ignorant, given her profession and working for CBS.
@@MrBen527 you also have contagious excitement!
She doesn’t actually care but is asking the questions the viewers want answers to
Interest or feigning interest? Honestly, her reactions were so cringe
@@Read.A.Journal.Article oh god its spread to you and now to me too!
This lady just asked if the glacier was pretty to look at. Don't look up in real life
Right! Ask some real damn questions about climate change.
@@tennisblairbased on her excacerbation at learning that studying air trapped in ice is part of climate science, makes it seem she just realized climate science is a real thing.
Sure. But I bet her ear holes make all sorts of interesting noises if you take her outside on a windy day though.
She's a reporter, she's old, she's been reporting on global warming for over 30 years, and she never heard of ice cores with ancient air bubbles? Fire this woman.
@@onebylandtwoifbysearunifby5475beats having a wind chime! 😂 Ha!
Imagine...*IT FOOKEN FLIPS*
Fascinating. I love the lady’s enthusiasm and the questions she asked the scientist. Wish this was longer!
that's what she said
@@DutchGlow-fi2ip 😂😂👏🏽👏🏽
It's the equivalent of being enthusiastic about and curious of how your brain tumor looks. This isn't about the ice being pretty or why he chose his career field. And the fact that she was apparently clueless about ice core research? She works for a major news network for crying out loud. Has she actually read any news at all in the last 20 years?
@@beth8775 Thank you. The ignorance of people about climate change, rising sea levels, and the DANGER of these ice shelves breaking away, is just stunning. Heck, even Al Gore was talking about the subject 30 years ago! This "reporter" seems to have skipped elementary school science, since she had no idea about any of this.
Yes! She literally asked the questions I had as he talked
This just in, Rhode Island just broke off the U.S. It is reported to be heading for a showdown with the iceberg somewhere in the Atlantic for a 2 out of 3 fall match.
Got to see iceberg A68a in early 2020, about the size of Delaware. Hundreds of whales were feeding next to the iceberg. An amazing sight.
Sounds amazing 😳
I love the way she is totally wanting to learn about this it’s awesome
I can only hope her earnest expression is honest instead of just acted.
Why have I randomly found this and haven't herd anything about it on the networks
It's a Day Away from Super Bowl Sunday and the Networks are focused on Making Money. They have to over play Travis Kelsey, SF 49ers, Super Bowl Ads, and Taylor Swift flying back from Japan to Las Vegas in her private jet.
You didn't find it. The networks put it on KZhead.
Because it's white
networks main stream media only play 'false news'
Ah, yes! LOL😅
Charming conversation, but seriously, be prepared for an interview and understand ahead of time what questions you should be asking to illuminate the fact that this isn't just unusual happy accident to provide beautiful scenery. This guy could have listed off 10 things a reporter should have been taking about instead of spending half the interview verbally gawking at the glacier and talking about a scientist's career choice. It's no wonder that most Americans are so uninformed.
Absolutely correct. Good material for a parody on SNL.
No argument here. I'm a long haired freaky person from Texas who has the very unpopular habit of thinking for himself. This could have been an exciting story, but they turned it into a fluff piece because they don't think that their audience is capable of understanding the ramifications of this potential problem. For the most part, they're right about that, people here tend to let others do their thinking for them because it's "easier". I believe that it's only a matter of time before we're living in the world portrayed in the movie "Idiocracy ". I've been thinking about Brazil 🇧🇷 a lot lately.........
@@kennyhagan5781Idiocracy is definitely on the way sadly 😢
"Oh it's so pretty" Looking at the world falling apart.
@@brycevanhorn7240 I've had many coolers full of ice melt and life went on. Remarkably it only takes cold air to make more.
It'd make Titanic's iceberg look like an ice cube! Holy crap!❤
Im curious about any bacteria or viruses trapped in air pockets from a million years ago.
IRL: freezer burn killed them off In Hollywood: the zombie apocalypse is unleashed.
Not sure about in icebergs, but there are ancient viruses being thawed in the warming permafrost.
That's not really a thing for icebergs, but it can be for the thawing permafrost in the upper northern latitudes.
Thats what i was thinking even any plant matter or organic material,something that big there could be anything in it, get those tug boats to push it back in place.
Iceburgs and ice caves have been tested with core samples and proved to have loving bacteria in the ice. Being frozen only preserved thier habatt they thrived in. Some had microcopic ecosystems. Dont think id be putting unfilered ice in my drinks. Lucky for me i cant eat ice. Or ice cold anything.
I love this news anchors curiosity and enthusiam over the topic. She needs to take trip to Alaska to see the teal blue ice.
The scientist was smart, thoughtful, and articulate. The journalist, on the other hand, sounded like a dull thud of inane-ness.
Right?! She asked what the “texture” of the iceberg is??? 😂 like wtf
I'd like to build a house on it, and go traveling.
How would Amazon find you?
@@A3Kr0n Your phone......
Sure, until the damn thing melts.
@@nocturnalrecluse1216yep, I think the house would sink into the ice.
@@KatiTheButcher yeap
We’re doomed She’s like the news anchor in the film Don’t Look Up. “gee, that’s intristing...”
"... and a pretty blue" :-)
Talked to an old Norwegian sailor once. He said at times in bad weather they would shelter in iceberg caverns. He said it was very eerie as everything was flat and one dimensional. Walking on the ship was dangerous and a persons face was flat. I think due to the filtering of light.
Far out!
Wow thanks!
Instead of asking how passionate the scientist was about his work, could we have a question about the effect on temperature or the rise in sea levels or something important?
0 effect..
Will be no rise, ice expands. Only 10 % is above water So it actually helps to cool down the ocean because, now it has more surface area . So sleep tight water levels ain't going up .
@@First_Bot Source - Trust me bro
@@First_Botsource?
I think that would be beating a very dead horse, at this point. Temperature and sea level will go up. At this stage, I'm not sure what would be gained by asking that question.
Anyone else remember the movie Day after Tomorrow? This happened in that movie.
No it didn’t
@@M4tTh3w909 I suggest you watch the movie then.
@@M4tTh3w909opening scene buddy
@@thenewnatives5156 thank you. While talking to the vice president.
Good things it's already in the water.
Godspeed on your work!
Good interview thanks.
Even though the Arctic freezes back over the new ice doesn't have time to anchor tightly to the rock like it used to do. It just becomes easier to break off each year.
The ice that floats away produces the same displacement in the ocean whether it melts or not. These ice shelves do not melt off the Antartic because the temperature averages about -60c. They are pushed out. It may look like a small increase in this activity. This is because the Antartic has been slowly growing over the years.
@@rosssmith8481 Thank you, whatever effect this berg will have on the environment (and frankly it isn't much) has already occured, months or more ago, when it snapped off the shelf prior to getting stuck in the mud.
Also that means it can't accumulate snow on top of the ice. And the snow melts if it's in the sea.
@TheWebstaff Which means it's still the same displacement of water.
Losing a chunk this big is like a fingernail falling off. We should be terrified, not fascinated.
how many pathogens will be released among other frozen atmospheric things melt away from long ago are in it as permafrost melts=methane.
even PETA is laughing at Groundhog's Day
Right whats wrong with her??
I'm shaking in my 3d printed galoshes!🥶
The ocean will eat it up. Scared about what? Lol stop it
How about an aerial view from about 40K feet?
Expect CGI.
You're funny. In the head.@@KC9UDX
@@KC9UDX Do you know what CGI stands for ??? Modern cameras use Pixels, and the resolution is better than film, ffs!
@@dnomyarnostaw umm I'm pretty well versed in it but it appears maybe you could do some studying. Film has far higher resolution than you think; precisely because there are no pixels. Not sure what this, or fast filesystems have anything to do with the subject at hand though.
@@KC9UDX Film can have higher resolution, in some applications. But from Satellites, the Digital images way outperform film stock when lighting and other radiation issues are taken into account, and also more sophisticated multi-pixel cameras are used in imaging satellites. " .. if we were to put a 120mm negative against a 35mm full-frame digital sensor, the film’s resolution would trump the digital camera. This will be more evident at lower ISOs; however, as you increase ISO, the signal-to-noise ratio drastically changes, and the digital sensor will win in terms of resolution." also "Film ... resolution is measured in “angular resolution.” If we compare film with a digital sensor, it has an equivalent resolution range of 4 to 16 megapixels. The exact number depends on the film type you use. For example, Kodachrome 64 film effectively compares to around 10 megapixels." Satellites orbiting earth taking pictures have megapixel counts ranging from 100 to 121 megapixels. CGI = "Computer-generated imagery (CGI)", is not used on public Satellite Images. In post processing, which uses automatic calculations driven by set algorithms to slightly adjust data values, no new images are created over the RAW data. CGI would be what you would use if you were doing something artistic for a movie plot.
This interview looks like a personal interview with her asking why is he interested in studying ice.. Never seen this on a live news tv😅
This can't be good
Exactly!! 😒
This is the first comment where someone said what I'm thinking.
its normal ,,,when eric the red discovered greenland during the medieval warm ( around 1100) ice core data tells us co2 was higher then as well as much warmer ( 3 to 5 f ) remember this was 600 yrs before humans started burning fossil fuels ,,,so it was a natural variation then much like now and planet earth was thriving ,,,,,,there is currently two miles thick of ice in ctr of greenland
In Antarctica we saw blue hues in the icebergs. Super stunning
I love how genuinely interested the news anchor is in what the scientist has to say
That research shop was docked in humboldt bay and I got to see it, but not one member of the crew
There is something called Sky Ice that is as blue as our sky. It’s there in Antarctica.
I haven't heard that name for it. Beautiful blue ice is found in some icebergs as well as in glaciers. I believe the color has to do with compression of the ice due to the weight of ice above.
Very interesting! I had no idea about the air bubbles.
Have you never heard of the Vostok ice core?
That's like a bigger Rhode Island sailing through the sea. What a bizarre world we live it!
I like the journalist engaging questions. She kept me interested in listening to the whole story.
Shaken not stirred.
The entire island should be towed to New York. It will chill martinis for a millenium.
Two people talking and little to no pics of the topic... Show pics!! Real pics🤷🤦
Huh? Is the satellite time lapse, and up close ship view of the wall of ice not enough ?
Not only can scientists test the air from millions of years ago, like finding when Krakatoa went off etc, they can look for pathogens being released, like the Bubonic Plague
That's a cool job right there. You can tell he loves it.
Actually….it’s a cold job. 🤪
In Alaska, there are charter boats that collect iceberg ice for passenger's cocktails while out cruising aboard their boats.
Dude, that sounds awful.
@@drowningpooralice5505 it's melting anyway. It's pure clean fresh water. Letting it melt and mix with the sea water or taking it out for commercial use makes no difference to the sea. Here in Newfoundland there are companies that harvest bits of icebergs to use for bottled water or for brewing beer and liquor.
I'm so happy and proud to have a drink to my children's future! Cheers 🥂
Well… that’s an enormous amount of drinks!!
This sounds like that one episode of avatar the last air bender
If it’s that big on the surface it’s probably bigger below, from what I’ve read about icebergs
Thank god it has already displaced the same amount of water if it had melted 👍😌(you know since water expands when frozen so if ice is floating it’s the same as if it wasn’t frozen)👍
rhode island feeling a little inadequate today
I'd love to camp in this iceberg, it'd be so very cool. Cold even. Lol
Until one day you wake up and it start melting and you'll scream like scratch
Camping on the iceberg? That would be intense.
Wow, really asking the hard hitting questions here.
Good interview.
What a very smart doctor.
How smart do you need to be to look at satellites pictures and say that you noticed the ice moving around?
The number of folks talking about how when it melts it’ll raise sea levels really put some things in perspective for me lol our education system is truly abhorrent
Yeah people can't really understand that the ice that is already in the ocean displaces a volume of water equal to each weight. The problem is ice that is on the land and eventually goes into the ocean.
😁
I looked and didn't see any comments saying that.
Its more about changing salinity than volume of water. That's when things get really squirrelly.
@@billpapadopoulos8295 Ummm... the volume of solid water (ice) is substantially greater than the volume of liquid water of the same mass.
Ice core samples have been used for years to measure atmospheric conditions from thousands of years ago.
“The last chunk of ice that broke off was about the size of the state of Rhode Island, some people might call that pretty sensational.” IYKYK
Fun fact: this is what icebergs do and have done for millions of years.
Not the point. This is different in every way
@@jconner3891 Not
@@jconner3891why, because you heard a news story about it?
@@user-mw8to4ng9i because my mom says so. Lol 😂 ✌️✌️✌️✌️
@@NunYa953 you actually see this. Sarcasm.
This story is what the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004) starring Dennis Quaid had as an *exact* plot point. The movie was based on a 1999 book. Spoiler Alert: It didn't end well for a lot of people.
Same thoughts here. 😂
The world would be so much better if people didn't spend their lives immersed in fiction.
@@KC9UDX and yet, here we are. "Fiction" is becoming Reality. Let me rephrase your response: 'The world would be so much better if people just kept their heads buried in the sand'
It is NOT anywhere near the Plot. Nothing to do with icebergs in Antarctica.
@@dnomyarnostaw "Ice Shelf breaks off the size of Rhode Island. I would call that pretty sensational. " Yeah, I have seen it a few times and I would disagree with you. The title says "Iceberg dislodges from ocean floor" but, an iceberg is already floating.
Fascinating!
Good interview. Would love to learn and hear more about this and the development of this happening.
Is there any chance of this thing attacking Ohio?
My favorite comment. Hopefully it doesn’t roll up the Maumee River and attack Perrysburg.
Nope, but one day Ohio will be on the Atlantic 😂😂😂
Is it mad at Pence too?
@@timkasten343 yay. It took 16 minutes for someone to bring politics into an apolitical topic. Mmmm. Tribalism. 👎
Yes....
It’s really amazing !! Never seen an iceberg island before . Seriously incredible !!
No it's not... This is terrifying. Us poorer & middle class folk living at or near the coast, are doomed.
Actually it is not an Island because it is not connected to an undersea land mass like say Hawaii.
@@nunyadambusiness3530 The rise in sea level due specifically to A23a completely melting will be minimal. The melting of glaciers in the western part of Antarctica pose a much bigger threat to coastal residents.
It may seem amazing but the impacts of it melting are not.
@@davepeesthepool The Thwaites Ice Sheet Glacier Complex?
Thank you for showing interest in our beautiful world and a little less politics great job
So this is like a giant floating island? Imagine riding ontop of it until it melts. I wonder how long you could live on it until its gone. Anyone know what the melting rate is of something this large?
Can't believe we couldn't stop this iceberg with higher taxes and energy costs.
😂
Higher *carbon* taxes with rebates are a good thing. It means the people who pollute more pay more tax, and the average person pays less tax because of this. It also incentivises corporations to develop systems that emit less carbon while performing the same function.
😂😂😂😂 10 points
@@jaymaccool And just how does paying more tax mitigate the carbon problem? It doesn’t, but someone has found a way to make bank off of this.
@@jaymaccoolbullshit! ,the biggest polluters dont pay a dime and average folk suffer .
And this woman never studied geography? She is amazed at the blue and air underneath the iceberg. What the hell are schools teaching? I studied this in High School!!!!! ALL students had to study so many subjects including geography, and pass the exams! 🤯🤯🤯
Human geography lol in Texas
That is massive!
As a New Zealander - glad it's not heading in this direction
This woman knows absolutely nothing about the polar ice caps. Wow.
Bobbleheads haven't been hired based on intelligence or knowledge in decades.
That poor lady needs to get out of the house or something. She’s absolutely blown away finding out ice has air in it or that icebergs can be a different color under the water. My god! 🤣 That’s some real “informed journalism” right there, folks. How are news reporters always some of the most disconnected people around?
I face-palmed on that one! Pretty sure I knew about ice-cores and air bubbles since before high-school.
@@brilliant-handleshe thinks she’s revealing something we didn’t know. This is what they are taught in journalism school.
So, you don't know the difference between a journalist and a news reader?
Lol I need to get out of the house too
I'm pretty sure she was amazed that the from the air bubbles they could tell what the atmosphere was like from thousands of years to millions of years ago.
There’s a company in Greenland that sells glacial ice for drinks, can ship all over. It’s environmentally sound as well.
It's official that the planet is not getting colder.
I honestly didn't know icebergs could be at the bottom of the ocean, I thought ice always floats 🤯
Being stuck on the seafloor doesn't mean that it was completely below sea level. 90% of the volume of an iceberg is underwater.
He says it's been sitting there for thousands or even millions of years. That's a big difference. This shows how much of science is just guess work.
No. Science work through exact measurement. Conclusions drawn are tentative till checked in enough ways that doubts are eliminated. The ice in that berg will have come partly from ice freezing in situ (measured in hundreds and thousands of years but may also inclide some ice that first froze millions of years ago and has only recently (measured in thousands of years) made its way dowm glaciers to form part of a floating ice sheet. Don't jump to conclusions about inexactitude from him only having a few minutes in which to talk about an immense subject.
It shows they haven't taken any core samples to date it.
Or that it's made up of layers that accrued over time so some of it is older. So ice cores take you back in time as you work from the top to the bottom.
@@HedgeWitch-st3yy The floating Ice sheets tend not to be like that all that much. Much of the ice has been pushed out to sea by an advancing mega-glacier behind it. The best places to find ice laid down in layers going back a long way are in what gets called "domes". These are high points inland in East Antarctica, the points from which any outward movement of the ice starts. Russia (may still have been the USSR?) drilled down into one of the highest and uncovered anazing amounts of information. A French/Italian team found a dome ("Dome C") that was not as high but the layers were thinner and the lowest layers were from much further back than the Russian probe. Dome C went four ice ages back. I've not been following it closely but a Chinese team may have got even further back.
R.I.P. you majestic beauty
Wow that's awesome!😮
That's it. No Titanic voyages for me or any ship vaguely sounding like it..
I hope that the Titanic 2 ship is already ready to take on this iceberg for a rematch.
I love this interview. I love that she asked questions, then stopped him from moving on and asked for more details. I haven’t seen an interview like this in many years, I hope we return to this caliber of journalism!!!
I want to live on it. Have a bigger place than RI all to myself.
The satellite time lapse actually did not appear to show that ice sheet moving north much at all. It's strange that they said it's moving out into open ocean when showing it basically still. Was this wrong video.
They need viewers.
Keep in mind that the map fails to represent the magnitude and scale of the iceberg, and the scientist said that it may interact with other antartic islands
I thought that as well but if you look they pinpoint this little circle on the left that shows a little bit break off of the whole mass and floats north a bit. You have to look hard for it.
Yes, and also they left out the time/date stamped on the actual video so you cannot pinpoint tge day it happened let alone realize they played it in a loop. It's actually a click bait story. They try to make it out like the whole entire ice shelf has broke off and is drifting aimlessly in the ocean, but it's actually just an overly large iceberg, and is not a "new" occurrence.
@@krabysniper Climate change is just another one of their soap operas.
When you see the iceberg from the satellite in perspective to the rest of the ocean it is just a teeny-weeny speck.
How much weight pressure just got relieved.
Soo cool wow!!
Yet another data point of extraordinary weather/climate incidents which have become common in the last ten years.
you better have an electric!
Not even close. This has been happening since we've kept records. Late 1800
Icebergs have been calfing since the beginning of time
What makes it extraordinary? Because the did a news story?
I'm assuming that if a large ice chunk like that floats into a more tropical region, wouldn't it cause constant storms to emerge from its interactions until it completely melts.
No
Okay, it's heading North, but in those lower Latitudes North is the direction it goes, but where in 360° is it heading?
I can’t believe the CEO of CBS thought it was a good idea to fire her😢😢😢😢😢😢😢. Her face is iconic.
I can only wonder how long it will take for the thing to become a hazard to shipping. My advice, find some way to steer the thing and harvest all of the water possible from it. There's enough there to last a good while, and it is fresh and clean compared to the sludge that we're used to. I'm sad to see CBS handle this story this way, it's an exciting event loaded with potentially dozens of dangerous or even catastrophic outcomes. To handle this as a "fluff" piece is just not good form. I remember a day when CBS was THE place to get the news ,I trusted Walter Cronkite more than I trusted my own parents growing up. And just what would Edward R Murrow think about this? Try harder, this is at the very least an environmental story that has heavy implications for the oceans.
Since whaling and sealing eneded there very few ships indeed have any reason to go anywhere near "Iceberg Alley", the area into which it is floating and where it will break up.
The reason ice calves off the Antarctic continental shelf is because fresh ice is replacing it further up the slope. It’s like a waterfall, but very slow moving. It’s not because we are driving SUV’s.
Wrong answer sparky. Sea water is warming at depth. It's being measured. Warmer water erodes the ice shelf from below and at the grounding line. Tides lift and drop the shelf, weakening its attachment to seafloor and landed ice. Ignorance is no excuse.
Lmfaooo what
Do you really think this "waterfall" cycle has always happened at the same speed? Do you REALLY think temperature doesn't affect it?
That’s a scary thing , those icebergs have massive boulders in them
It'd be nice if we could steer it to Los Angeles. Plenty of water for the next 5 years as it melts; and what the heck. Helps keep the area cool as well !
Surprised the newscaster has never heard of core drilling ice to look back in time at the weather climates, kinda of common knowledge no?
Knowledge is foreign to most bobbleheads.
Everything... Is... Fine
Anchorage Alaska just the city is bigger by size than entirety of rhode island.
For reference, you could fit 7 Prince Edward Islands into this iceberg...with room to spare.
So the cost of ice is going down right??
That ice is gonna melt buddy, the price is going up 😂
Equivalent to the amount of chemicals in your city water, prices are expected to incline for both.
What do you think???
@The_Quaalude, so will sea levels. Low lying areas prone to flooding, such as Florida, should take notice.