Even has an eye in the front. Thought it was a sub for while there...

I think it may be for a size perspective.

This is .......... (You know!)

It is more likely pure crystalline ice which takes on that blue hue.

Wow!

ice melts.

of the dire consequences of their heros chanting "drill, baby drill". When Fox Noise has convinced them that data from every accredited university study in the entire world is all "left wing propaganda"... it's long past time for some serious wake up calls, some serious cult deprogramming.

Being toppled into the sea, never to be heard from again.

Can we hope for Drump in his tower? Or at least in his FL playpen when the tsunami hits?

AND, I wondered about those ivory towers tumbling into the sea.

Schadenfreude.

slides off into the ocean. Probably soon.

Are plugging up the masses of ice behind them, resting on land. But just a very uneducated guess.

to seep under the ice on land and start warming it that way. That has been happening in Greenland I believe.

I didn't see any mention of which one it was, though....
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The reason it DOES 'calve' is that its leading edge is unsupported by solid ground so its weight causes it to break off.
I looked at the youtube directly, it was actually 9 years ago on the west coast of Greenland.

It's only sea ice after it breaks off the 'tongue' of the glacier, and turns into icebergs.

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I may be mistaken here, this particular phenomenon is technically called an "icefjord" (fiord of ice) which seems to be an intermediate between a 'regular' fiord and a glacier....the glacier is obviously at the very 'top' and is apparently the boundary between glacier and sea. It's a little confusing because the video doesn't tell us exactly where it was made. If the ice in the video has already fallen
into the water, it is floating (or maybe stuck to the bottom as the wiki article suggests, in which case it is displacing the volume
rather than the mass ('weight') of the water over it).

It's just weather. There's no other reason why it's 69 degrees in February in DC right now. Liberals are so biased with this fake news video about the glacier. You can clearly see immigrants coming here and ruining that glacier if you weren't so liberal.

Hey, I'm loving the warmth, just not the outcome.

I'd seen that early last year. Published in 2012. Think what's happening NOW.

I am just as awestruck as the first. A powerful image. A powerful message.

created with CGI. Wait for the tweet.

If greenhouse gas levels keep increasing every year for the next 50, we'll be in disaster mode long before then.

The grim fact is that we are probably already past critical tipping points, with no hope of reversing things before we careen past even worse tipping points. Saying that "if every nation comes together NOW, we can stop this" is just fantasy. Nothing that any politician or any nation can do in reality will have any effect other than to slow the rate of increase of greenhouse gas levels. There is no way we can even stop the increase in human release of greenhouse gases in less than 10-15 years, and it will be even longer before it can be reduced back to a safe level. And that doesn't even take into account natural release from methane sources and others, that may render any human efforts useless anyway.

Our last real chance to prevent global warming disaster was in 1980. If this country had re-elected Carter, we might have had a chance to chart a sane, sensible course on energy policy and fossil fuel use, but electing Reagan pretty much fucked us for the long term, even though few if any people realized it at the time.

And welcome to DU!

Unfortunately, the only viable course now is mitigation. If only in 1980....

And welcome.

but we need to prepare for bad situations. The problem is, the best way to do that isn't entirely clear, especially when our government is under the complete control of people who deny that the problem even exists.

You're right, unfortunately.

I can't bring myself to watch the vid....just too upsetting.


Plant trees, people, lots and lots of trees.

And don't breed.

To lessen the impact or slow its onset, but we shouldn't delude ourselves that it's going to be anything less than bad.

and gravity.

Simply stunning.

The scale was very difficult to sense, but to see mountains of snow fall over and flow like water in the rapids of some immense river... wow.

It was so fluid I wasn't sure if I was looking at liquid or solid.



Stunning.

NYC, I suggest you start building your version of the Thames Barrier like right now! Lets hope you don't needed before it's finished.

Another 70-degree day expected here in Charlottesville Va tomorrow. In the middle of February? Better than digging the snow out of my derived, but bodes ill for the future.

Thanks for posting this!

All I can think of is my grandbaby.

What are we doing? What have we done?

earth, consistently lodge protest votes against the people who attempt to reverse this kind of crap.