7.4 Cubic Kilometers of Ice Crashing Into the Ocean

By on December 17, 2012 in News 9

The largest calving event ever recorded:

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  • Zachariah Whitehurst

    A natural occurance, sped up by humanity. Captured and now televised by the same species. Can we reverse the process at this point? Who has the ambition?

    • http://twitter.com/TedHeistman Ted Heistman

      Calving is not a sign of global warming. Its a sign of a growing glacier.

      • Andrew

        Evidence, please.

      • http://twitter.com/TedHeistman Ted Heistman

        When glaciers dry up, they don’t calve. They form higher up and push their way down. If there is insufficient snowfall or high temperatures up in the mountains they don’t form. Hence no calving. Calving implies that its cold enough and snows enough for the winters precipitation not to melt. Thats how glaciers form.

        • Andrew

          Glaciers don’t “dry up,” they melt, and they do calve when they melt as well as when they grow.

  • InfvoCuernos

    pretty awesome. What’s that at about the 2 minute mark? Looks like giant whale..

    • http://twitter.com/TedHeistman Ted Heistman

      Dark blue glacial ice

      • InfvoCuernos

        Ya that’s pretty much what I figured too, just looked weird.

        • http://twitter.com/TedHeistman Ted Heistman

          Yeah it looked pretty awesome.