02 August 2008

Arctic Ice Shelf Break-up


While I am not one to subscribe to the theory that we can actually do anything about global warming, I do find it interesting to watch. This is a satellite image of Very large hunks of ice breaking of one of the Arctic shelves. The total breakage was about 8 square miles of ice sheets as can be seen in the photo. This happened in the North Atlantic and more of the same shelf, the Ward Hill Island shelf, may be breaking off soon.

I love satellites!

1 comment:

Nicole said...

Wow...that is unbelievable. I'm wondering where you found the clip (I apologize if you noted it and I missed it) and how you posted it to your blog. I had a tough time getting a clip from Youtube to my blog....Your site looks wonderful! Well done!!!