European Knight
05-13-2015, 04:15 PM
http://wpo.st/m-1H0
In early 2002, scientists peering in on Antarctica from satellites saw something they found very alarming.
The Larsen B ice shelf, bigger than Rhode Island and 720 feet thick, underwent a sudden collapse in only 35 days (video here). It was following in the footsteps of the 1,500-square-kilometer Larsen A ice shelf, which collapsed in 1995, but Larsen B was more than two times larger.
The ice shelf, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, had “likely existed” for 12,000 years before it collapsed and ceased to be a feature of the Earth.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/05/12/Interactivity/Images/Larsen-C-ice-sheld-Weddell-Sea.jpg&w=1484
http://youtu.be/N61EP5zB8uU
In early 2002, scientists peering in on Antarctica from satellites saw something they found very alarming.
The Larsen B ice shelf, bigger than Rhode Island and 720 feet thick, underwent a sudden collapse in only 35 days (video here). It was following in the footsteps of the 1,500-square-kilometer Larsen A ice shelf, which collapsed in 1995, but Larsen B was more than two times larger.
The ice shelf, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, had “likely existed” for 12,000 years before it collapsed and ceased to be a feature of the Earth.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/05/12/Interactivity/Images/Larsen-C-ice-sheld-Weddell-Sea.jpg&w=1484
http://youtu.be/N61EP5zB8uU