Huge ice island could pose threat to oil, shipping
STOCKHOLM – An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.
Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes — and any collision could do untold damage. In a worst case scenario, large chunks could reach the heavily trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912.
It's been a summer of near biblical climatic havoc across the planet, with wildfires, heat and smog in Russia and killer floods in Asia. But the moment the Petermann glacier cracked last week — creating the biggest Arctic ice island in half a century — may symbolize a warming world like no other.
"It's so big that you can't prevent it from drifting. You can't stop it," said Jon-Ove Methlie Hagen, a glaciologist at the University of Oslo...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100810/ap_on_sc/eu_ice_island (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100810/ap_on_sc/eu_ice_island)
:buggedout: Scary stuff.
Hmm, where will this thread go? Climate change or the end is near just like the movie 2012? :teddyr: Some of the comments at yahoo are frightening.
I made it as far as them blaming wildfires on global warming. :lookingup:
Quote from: 3mnkids on August 10, 2010, 09:38:14 PM
:teddyr: Some of the comments at yahoo are frightening.
"Need lots of Scotch!"
:drink: