The giant Ayles Ice Island drifting off Canada's northern shores has broken in two - far earlier than expected. In a season of record summer melting in the region, the two chunks have moved rapidly through the water - one of them covering 98km (61 miles) in a week. Their progress has been tracked amid fears they could edge west towards oil and gas installations off Alaska. The original Manhattan-sized berg (16km by five km; 10 miles by three miles) broke off the Ayles Ice Shelf in 2005.
Arctic ice island breaks in half
Arctic ice island breaks in half
(via news.bbc.co.uk)
Submitted by eva on Tue, 2007-10-02 16:43. | Tags: nature | arctic | arctic sea ice | climate change
Arctic Ice and prehistory
The history of Arctic Ice did not begin within the last hundred years as many would have us believe. Polar Ice Caps are so rare in the history of the world as to be almost a phenomenon to be seriously studied as to why they occur. There have been no more than five periods of Ice Ages, all starting and ending quite rapidly. Millions of years can pass between them without any Ice. Look up the 'Chalk Cliffs of Dover' for just one very obvious example. Do people actually believe that we can control the entire planet to give us our 'ideal' temperature? I believe that the 'religion of catastrophism' is taking over modern humanity through political agenda. Please research these facts yourself. Do not take my word for it. http://cretaceous.wordpress.com/ and http://interglacial.wordpress.com/