Archive for September 4th, 2010
The largest chunk of ice in the Northern Hemisphere is on the move
The largest chunk of ice in the Northern Hemisphere is on the move – at a four-hundredths-of-a-kilometer an hour clip. Satellite imagery from the European Space Agency shows that a massive iceberg that calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier on August 4 has cruised into the Nares Strait, putting 28 kilometers between it and its source. [...]
Posted: September 4th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: arctic, catastrophic climate change, Climate Change, glacial melt, global warming, greenland, icesheet loss, sea level rise, Tipping Points
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