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Aha so consider by how much a junk of ice which is 5060 x 0.3 CUBIC KILOMETERS will chill down the ocean water when it takes 80 calories just to melt 1 gram of ice and this in turn can drop 80 mls of water by 1 whole degree Celsius.A 1,000-foot-thick ice block the size of Delaware is snapping off of Antarctica
A chunk of ice nearly twice the size of Rhode Island state is cracking off of an Antarctic glacier, and the rift between it and the southern continent is growing longer and wider every day.
The 2,300-square-mile ice block is part of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which is the leading edge of one of the world's largest glacier systems.
It's called an ice shelf because it's floating on the ocean. It's normal for ice shelves to calve big icebergs, since snow accumulation gradually pushes old glacier ice out to sea.
But this 1,000-foot-thick piece of floating ice is colossal, and it's quickly fracturing off of Antarctica's prominent peninsula, likely due to rapid human-caused global warming.
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A 1,000-foot-thick ice block the size of Delaware is snapping off of Antarctica
wow, utterly shockin
And grew and even remained stable.
The heat content of the Antarctic ice mass is already taken into account. It will not reduce the global temperature one iota.
The operative word is heat content. You are right the correct term for that is specific heat which is 0.5 cals per gram at 0 Celsius. But when ice melts like this huge junk eventually will it sucks up 80 cals per gram that`s called the latent heat. So go figure what kind of chilling effect ~120680 cubic kilometers of (0C) ice cold water will have on the portion of the ocean it will wind up in.The heat content of the Antarctic ice mass is already taken into account. It will not reduce the global temperature one iota.
It wouldn't have an effect on salinity or temperature... according to Crick... I am in awe of the total lack of cognitive thought by some here..The operative word is heat content. You are right the correct term for that is specific heat which is 0.5 cals per gram at 0 Celsius. But when ice melts like this huge junk eventually will it sucks up 80 cals per gram that`s called the latent heat. So go figure what kind of chilling effect ~120680 cubic kilometers of (0C) ice cold water will have on the portion of the ocean it will wind up in.The heat content of the Antarctic ice mass is already taken into account. It will not reduce the global temperature one iota.
I thought you knew the difference between specific heat and latent heat, apparently not...
And grew and even remained stable.
And became unstable and cracked when it grew to big.
You are probably right and the alarmists who published that crack probably knew that as well.And grew and even remained stable.
And became unstable and cracked when it grew to big.
Im thinking this is just a natural cycle. At a 1000 feet thick I don't think it snapped off because heat diminished it.
Meanwhile, despite the denier protestations that it can't happen because their politics says it can't, global sea ice levels continues on a record low.
It must suck to be a denier, always having nature pointing out you're a wacky cultist.