May be I should have used "OHIO!!!!!!" in the title so more than 2 people will look at this. Oh well, welcome to the 2 of you.
I saw an article in the Seattle Times today. While this particular event may not be from Global Warming, it is a warning about how delicate life in the Antarctic can be.
Antarctic Penguin Chicks Face Starvation (from yahoo!)
The iceberg, known as B15A, measures about 1,200 square miles, said Lou Sanson, chief executive of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand.
He called it "the largest floating thing on the planet right now" and said U.S. researchers estimate it contains enough water to supply Egypt's Nile River complex for 80 years.
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The iceberg is a remnant of one that broke off the Ross Shelf in 2000. That one measured about 4,400 square miles, the size of the Caribbean island of Jamaica, and was the largest iceberg ever recorded.
The Ross shelf had been developing a crack for at least 30 years and the shelf is now the size it was in 1911 - Ross Ice Shelf Breaks, As Expected--Big Berg Loosed
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