Wide-Long Rift In Larsen Ice Shelf Threatens To Change Sea Levels When It Breaks Off [VIDEO]
There are some events that are quite unseen unless observers do their job well, as for the large slice on Antartica's Ice Shelf recently seen in November; this kind of event should not be overlooked. For many years, the Earth has manifested a lot of changes that has indirectly and directly affected its inhabitants, as intelligent beings, there should be preventive measures. Because nature may have its own ways on how it will destroy mankind and living things as in the cases of flood, landslides, and avalanches.
In a recent report from Business Insider, Satellite images recovered have suggested that the rift on the ice started on 2011 and extended to 18 miles by 2015. Unfortunately, it is not getting any shorter as by a year after, 14 miles more were added making it 70 miles long, 300 feet wide and a mile deep. With its present capacity, it can reach twice the size of Rhode Island and this 1000 foot-thick iceberg is set to destroy Antartica's foreland all because of man-made global warming.
In November, a team from NASA's Operation IceBridge survey had already measured the expanse of the rift but to what extent it will chip off is still undetermined. Since this massive event is the third of its kind, glaciologist, and geophysicist, Joe MacGregor from the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will have to closely monitor its behavior in relation to the ice sheets and oceans. This huge bulk will eventually break off from the ice shelf and will travel through the oceans and melt, but the process will take a while given its size and structure.
Another phenomenon associated with the problems in Antartica is the decrease in sea ice extent which had a significant plunge last November. The Guardian reports that warm temperature and winds brought about by this man-made global warming dilemma have caused the sea ice to shrink by around 50,000 sq km around the Barents Sea. A chain of events from November 2013 may be connected wherein a large area of ice was removed from the Arctic supposedly not during the time when it should be growing.
For the winter season, the most, it is usually expected that Arctic sea ice will grow but these nature problems are arising due to the effects of human activities; activities that may be affected if nature will fight back.
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