Thursday, August 12, 2010

Lost Giant chunks of ice in the Arctic Ocean


A chunk of ice the size of almost half of Jakarta 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.
"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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