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Rabu, 18 Agustus 2010

Big Glaciers in Arctic Ocean USA

ice for half of New York
Wow there are chunks of ice for half of New York? tuh shucks for what? the danger of this ice shelf has split from its parent in Greenland there ..
if not mistaken the ship had been sunk by the titanic iceberg of this type.

A chunk of ice the size of almost half of New York floating in the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole after a split from a glacier in Greenland. Two facilities that may be on a path that will pass through the giant iceberg of this is oil refineries and shipping lines. Caused damage that could be seen. In a worst-case scenario, this icy waters to reach dense traffic areas where other icebergs from Greenland has sunk the Titanic in 1912.

Aerial Greenland
ice for half of New York
"This very large iceberg that we can not get him to stop drifting and drifting," said Jon-Ove Hagen Methlie, an expert on glaciers from the University of Oslo.

Teams of scientists are busy estimating trajectory floating icebergs that are currently moving toward the Strait of nares. Nares strait separates the waters of northwestern Greenland with Ellsemere Island in Canada. Some pictures show the ice shelf the size of 260 square kilometers. Chunks of it apart from the Greenland glacier, the source of fresh water that if melted would raise global sea levels by six meters.

Lately there have been some disasters are by scientists associated with global warming, such as heat waves and forest fires in Russia and the flood disaster in Asia.

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