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A23a: World's biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years
(www.bbc.co.uk)
Watch out DiCaprio!
It's 37 years old, you won't find DiCaprio anywhere near that thing.
true
At almost 4,000 sq km (1,500 sq miles) in area, it’s more than twice the size of Greater London.
Thats good for quite some Martinis.
It's covered in bird (and seal) poop
Dirty Martinis then.
Flip it over
That part is covered in fish poop
Thank goodness I don't drink Martinis, then.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"I asked a couple of colleagues about this, wondering if there was any possible change in shelf water temperatures that might have provoked it, but the consensus is the time had just come," said Dr Andrew Fleming, a remote sensing expert from the British Antarctic Survey.
A23a has put on a spurt in recent months, driven by winds and currents, and is now passing the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
This is the same movement of water - and accompanying westerlies - that the famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton exploited in 1916 to make his escape from Antarctica following the loss of his ship, the Endurance, in crushing sea-ice.
Shackleton aimed his lifeboat for South Georgia, and it's at this island that you will frequently see the big tabular bergs sitting offshore.
As these big bergs melt, they release the mineral dust that was incorporated into their ice when they were part of glaciers scraping along the rock bed of Antarctica.
"In many ways these icebergs are life-giving; they are the origin point for a lot of biological activity," said Dr Catherine Walker, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who was born in the same year as A23a.
The original article contains 608 words, the summary contains 199 words. Saved 67%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Is it time to cue up The Day After Tomorrow?
Who wants to do the exact maths to work out the sea level rise of all of this melting? My back of an envelope calculation gives me 4cm, but happy to be proved wrong! I did 1600km3 over 75% of 510,000,000km2
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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