Giant iceberg spotted near Australia

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The ice chunk, measuring some 2,300 feet long with an estimated depth of more than 1,000 feet, caused a stir when it was sighted by experts based on Australia's remote Macquarie Island.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6554023/Giant-iceberg-spotted-off-Aus...
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40 comments // Giant iceberg spotted near Australia

  • patriotaxe
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      patriotaxe  

    • Sweet mother of god, that's one hell of a big chunk of ice. This has nothing to do with global warming, however. Newt Gingrich is linking it to the Clinton-Lewinski scandal.

    • 3 months ago
  • thewarnerla
  • jac1992
  • oly90808
    • 0
      oly90808  

    • couple things here, first of all i voted this UP not that i liked it, but that it should be on the news around the world for a week. 2nd, anyone thinking about solar towers yet to slow global warming? 3rd. the article states its concern over heading into shipping lanes, and could be a possible hazzard....

      Njoy it while it lasts...

      oly90808

    • 3 months ago
  • crispyfritters
  • Sean_O_Brien1
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • Sean_O_Brien1:

      SHIT! I have been watching and going to hockey games since 1972. I cant believe I didnt think of that. Hockey fan?? GO RED WINGS or GO FLAMES

      Yes BTW, I think it would be a great arena for another "winter classic" Gotta do 2 of the original 6 though. Habs and Red Wings would be nice

    • 3 months ago
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  

    • Then it hits Australia and Australia sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic.

      "Well I don't think anyone saw that coming..."

      "Yeah, talk about hubris."

      "Wtf?"

    • 3 months ago
  • Curtis_Wright
  • Minus5scenePoints
  • antoine_99
  • green_wall
  • courage
    • 0
      courage  

    • Let me get this straight global warming is melting the ice causing higher seas and more water is causing draught right?more water is causing draught right?the earth has been a iceball and a hot house thousands of times set your self loathing and hubris down destroying capitalism will not stop the cycles of the earth

    • 3 months ago
  • thedirtman
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      thedirtman  
    • courage:

      The Earth has been covered with ice, and the seas have completed evaporated at least once. Just never while mankind was able to grow fields of wheat and paddies of rice. If we could go back to hunting woolly mammoths some of us might get through an ice age. Too bad all that freshwater ice is being lost to the saltwater seas. As far as drought predictions don't count on any accuracy of prediction. Climate science is about as complicated as any Earth Science can get... just too many variables. I've never lived in Nebraska, but I'm very concerned that soil water retention is poor in the Sand Hills of Nebraska and that something severe could happen. Famine is not a good thing.

    • 3 months ago
  • 24French
  • thedirtman
    • 0
      thedirtman  

    • This correlation between atmospheric temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentrations has a better correlation coefficient than the one that Al Gore is using. If I solve for the normalized the atmospheric CO2 and sunspot figures, and then find the best correlation coefficient between these two components I find that;

      .09x + .91y = z

      where x is the normalized sunspot total
      y is the normalized atmospheric CO2 concentration
      and z is the Temperature Anomaly in degrees Celsius

      Here is how the results compare: If I assume that CO2 were solely responsible for the runup in temperature between 1985 and 2008 then we could expect the temperature to continue to increase at the rate projected in the book "Inconvenient Truth". On the other hand, if this cumulative correlation is indeed better then expect yet greater increases in global temperatures. Look out when the sunspot cycle returns to normal in 2012. I can use the regression to project a TA of 0.74 by 2013. That's off the charts.

      Could it be that global warming is being underestimated because sunspots were low on the cycle when Al Gore's movie came out? It's tempting to apply a detective "whodunnit" approach to the question of global warming, but if we're looking for a murder mystery analogy I suggest looking at "Murder on the Orient Express".

    • 3 months ago
  • prepstein
  • snarly
    • 0
      snarly  

    • So lets listen to the 1% of scientist who say tha global warming is bullshit and do nothing about it rather than listen to the 99% who say it does. If it goes against what you believe, no matter the overwhelming proof, it must be wrong, no matter the consequences.

    • 3 months ago
  • arikata
  • passjay
    • 0
      passjay  

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4UF_Rmlio
      Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability. Others believe that scientists are still debating the point. Join scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes as she describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science. Series: "Perspectives on Ocean Science"

    • 3 months ago
  • Toughth
    • 0
      Toughth  

    • Profit over common sense. We have seen within the last two years how the conservitive buisness people would shaft the rest of the world to make more profit for their pockets. They can afford to hire some dupe that needs money to support the fact that the really dont care about anything except thier own empires and country clubs.

    • 3 months ago
  • kimikebentz
    • 0
      kimikebentz  

    • "President Obama and leaders from the rest of the world's top economic powers acknowledged Sunday that there's no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year's end..."

    • 3 months ago
  • Chique
  • Chique
  • kennymotown
  • stephenthomson
  • idealist
    • 0
      idealist  

    • air lift it to the middle of australias desert and watch it bloom in the last beautifull utopia our planet will have!! ahhhh... "sigh" anti global warming lobyist are dicks.

    • 3 months ago
  • snarly
    • 0
      snarly  

    • It doesn't matter what causing global warming. What matters is it's happening, and we need to figure out a way to slow it down. Even if it is cyclic, the last time, nearly everybody died!! Wake Up!!!!

    • 3 months ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • snarly
    • 0
      snarly  
    • snarly:

      and some people still think the earth is flat, doesnt mean it is. The science points to something happening, but just because a SMALL minority don't believe it, you would rather doom the rest of us? brilliant!

    • 3 months ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • snarly
  • Ihatethemall
    • 0
      Ihatethemall  

    • From the article:

      Jonathan Bamber, from Bristol University, said icebergs the size of Wales can break off the Antarctic and it is too early to say if it is caused by climate change

    • 3 months ago
  • Progresshiv
    • 0
      Progresshiv  

    • That iceberg is an appropriate symbol of the now-ending climate era that hosted the Industrial Revolution. Take your grandchildren to the seashore to wave bye-bye.

    • 3 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • LadybugLady
  • neonbunny
  • pjacobs51
  • int_massEntropy
  • Gravity_Man

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