A huge reservoir of ice, an area roughly equal to the African countries of Brunei or Trinidad and Tobago may soon break away from the ice shelf of Antarctica
As noted on Thursday by scientists from Swansea University in Wales, if it happens, it’s a piece of ice will be one of the biggest icebergs in the world with an area of about 5 thousand sq. km.
It is noteworthy that this picture of the satellite data showed it was in the day when the President of the United States Donald trump clarify the situation regarding the country’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
Crack that threatens to create an iceberg in the form of a finger with a thickness of about 350 m, six days increased by 17 km. Now “almost iceberg” shelf ice “Larsen C” binds a strip width of only 13 km.
“Larsen C” is the most northerly of the Antarctic ice shelves, as well as the largest. If the iceberg will break away, the glacier will lose about one-tenth of its area.
According to scientists, the iceberg won’t raise sea level, but can make Larsen unstable and fragile, and this may lead to release of enormous quantities of water.
If all the glaciers pent “Larsen C” was in the ocean, the global water level would rise approximately on 10 see In General the West Antarctic ice sheet contains enough frozen water to boost average water level by about 6 m, and this will lead to a global catastrophe and flooding of many countries.
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