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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
"I didn't expect to see things happen this quickly"
By VictorM:When it comes to global warming, get used to statements like the one on the title of this post. I know we've reduced global warming skeptics to the size and importance of flat-earth idiots, but we have been too slow to react and the reality of global warming will be harder to deal with than outdated computer models:
A vast ice shelf hanging on by a thin strip looks to be the next chunk to break off from the Antarctic Peninsula, the latest sign of global warming’s impact on Earth's southernmost continent.
Scientists are shocked by the rapid change of events.
Glaciologist Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado was monitoring satellite images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf and spotted a huge iceberg measuring 25 miles by 1.5 miles that appeared to have broken away from the shelf.
Scambos alerted colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) that it looked like the entire ice shelf — about 6,180 square miles (about the size of Northern Ireland)— was at risk of collapsing.
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