{"id":179890,"date":"2017-09-25T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/25\/we-are-unbelievably-screwed-4\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T00:39:00","slug":"we-are-unbelievably-screwed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/25\/we-are-unbelievably-screwed-4\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Unbelievably Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"
A glacier in the Antarctic just calved an iceberg 4 times the size of Manhattan<\/a>:<\/div>\n

An enormous Antarctic glacier has given up an iceberg over 100 square miles in size, the second time in two years it has lost such a large piece in a process that has scientists wondering whether its behavior is changing for the worse. <\/p>\n

The Pine Island Glacier<\/a> is one of the largest in West Antarctica, a region that is currently Antarctica\u2019s biggest ice loser. Pine Island, which loses an extraordinary 45 billion tons of ice to the ocean each year (\u2013 equivalent to 1 millimeter of global sea level rise every eight years \u2014 is 25 miles wide where its floating front touches the sea, and rests on the seafloor in waters more than a half-mile deep. The single glacier alone contains 1.7 feet of potential global sea level rise and is thought to be in a process of unstable, ongoing retreat. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why scientists are watching it closely, and on Saturday, Stef Lhermitte, a satellite observation specialist at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, posted a satellite image<\/a> showing that Pine Island had \u201ccalved,\u201d or broken off a piece of ice about 103 square miles in area. (For comparison, Manhattan is 22.83 square miles<\/a> in size.) The rectangular piece of ice then appears to have lost some of its shape immediately as smaller pieces splintered off. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the fifth large calving event since 2000,\u201d Lhermitte said. \u201cThis one and 2015, they were much further inland than the previous ones. So there has been a retreat of the calving front, specifically between 2011 and 2015.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly anthropogenic climate change is a myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A glacier in the Antarctic just calved an iceberg 4 times the size of Manhattan: An enormous Antarctic glacier has given up an iceberg over 100 square miles in size, the second time in two years it has lost such a large piece in a process that has scientists wondering whether its behavior is changing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-179890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anthropogenic-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}