Thursday, July 19, 2012

Iceberg break off Greenland 'backs up evidence of global warming'

Telegraph: A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken off of a glacier in Greenland, according to Nasa satellite imagery, in what could be the latest indication of global warming. The massive chunk of ice broke off of the Petermann Glacier on the northwestern coast of Greenland, which produced a similar ice island twice as large in 2010. Nasa said the crack in the glacier had been visible since 2001, and that its polar-orbiting Aqua satellite had observed the break on July 16-17. The Telegraph's...

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9411986/Iceberg-break-off-Greenland-backs-up-evidence-of-global-warming.html

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