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Giant Monster Iceberg Headed Towards AustraliaExpected to melt into tiny monster icebergs while en route... |
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| By Michael d'Estries in Climate Change, Water | December 10, 2009 | ||
A 12-mile-long massive iceberg (twice the size of Hong Kong island) is headed towards Australia in what scientists are calling a “once-in-a-century event.”
The 54 square-mile ice slab known as B17B, is currently about 1,000 miles south of the continent. Initially three times as big, it broke off of the Antarctic about 10 years ago and has been slowly floating around. It’s current path north is unusual — and incredibly rare. “I’m guessing you would probably have to go back to the times of the clipper ships,” one glaciologist told USA Today.
B17B is expected to break up into smaller, but still hazardous chunks as it enters warmer waters and moves closer to Australia. It joins two other large icebergs currently floating down under — as well as several hundred currently infesting the waters around New Zealand.
Researchers warn that as global warming effects the colder regions of our planet, icebergs of this size are likely to occur more often.
John said,
Nah it’s just Tasmania
Nick said,
Global warming or not, we definitely are interfering with the ecology of the planet, therefore, the earth is responding to the conditons we create, however, our response to that, is to ruin the planet even more. We do not seem to have the ability to live in harmony with this planet, as if we are aliens devouring this earth’s resources. the mentality of humans is well demonstrated by John’s comment. “Nah it’s just Tasmania” And so it goes at all levels of life. He along with others find comfort in the company of this tragic misery. I feel sorry for the animals. The merchants must make money, the politicians need to exert power and influence, one third of the masses want more and more materialism, entertainment, gadgets, things and inventions in the hope that there will be a satisfying life at the end of it. While the other two thirds live in a hell hole. When this earth is spent, there will be not be another, we have blown it. Someone had better call a halt soon. We will succumb to the universal law, “Reap what you sow”
Nick said,
The merchants must make money, the politicians need to exert power and influence, one third of the masses want more and more materialism, entertainment, gadgets, things and inventions in the hope that there will be a satisfying life at the end of it. While the other two thirds live in a hell hole. When this earth is spent, there will be not be another, we have blown it. Someone had better call a halt soon. We will succumb to the universal law, “Reap what you sowâ€