Lat/Lon :: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Elevation :: 33 feet
Local Time: 2:09 PM AKDT (GMT -08)
Temperature :: 61 Fahrenheit
Conditions :: Overcast
Humidity :: 72%
Dew Point :: 52 Fahrenheit
Wind :: 9 mph from the South Southeast
Pressure :: 29.97 inches (Rising)
Visibility :: 10.0 miles
UV :: 2 out of 16
Clouds :: Mostly Cloudy at 4100 feet
Mostly Cloudy at 4600 feet
Overcast at 6000 feet
(Above ground level)
I suppose if I were God, I'd make myself known in an interesting way, too.
The calving of these large icebergs including the one in 1962 is directly related to The Climate Crisis. The warming of Earth due to Human Induction started in the late 1800s. It is hideous to continue to deny it!
Giant Glacier Breaks on Anniversary of Global Warming (click title to entry - thank you)
'Analysis by Michael Reilly
Sun Aug 8, 2010 03:50 PM ET
On Thursday, scientists discovered that a huge mass of ice four times the size of Manhattan had broken free of Petermann glacier in northwestern Greenland. The "ice island" was the largest calving event on the glacier since 1962, and researchers estimated Petermann lost nearly a quarter of its floating ice tongue in one go....
...As it turns out, the new ice island was born just in time for the 35th anniversary of the scientific paper that coined the term "global warming." On August 8,1975, the journal Science published the article entitled "Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?" by Wallace Smith Broecker of Columbia University....
