While the
oil industry continues to pump millions into climate change denial, our pals at
Common Dreams bring us this bit of scary intelligence.
“A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken
off one of Greenland's major glaciers -- a development which scientists say is due to alarming warming in the region.
The iceberg, measuring 46 square miles, is the second of its
nature to break from Greenland in just two years. In 2010 an iceberg twice its
size, one of the largest ever recorded in Greenland, broke free. "It's
dramatic. It's disturbing," said University of Delaware professor Andreas
Muenchow, one of the first researchers to notice the break. "We have data
for 150 years and we see changes that we have not seen before. It's one of the
manifestations that Greenland is changing very fast." "This is not
part of natural variations anymore," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot,
referring to the vast changes the glacier has seen in the past three years.
Scientists are concerned about rising sea levels due to melting ice in the
north. The Arctic had the largest sea ice loss on record for June, scientists
reported this week, and Northern Greenland and Canada are warming five times
faster than the average global temperature. "The Greenland ice sheet as a
whole is shrinking, melting and reducing in size as the result of globally
changing air and ocean temperatures and associated changes in circulation
patterns in both the ocean and atmosphere"
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