This updates “A Growing Rift” last addressed a month ago with Larson C at 11 miles to separation. That is now down to 5 km with the rift growing at 10 m a day and accelerating because the shear and moment on the crack no longer are being resisted by enough of an area to prevent its breaking off.
Clearly Donald Jr is of more interest to most folks than Antarctica losing its ice, but this amputation of a major limb is the sort of thing where you are going to miss having it attached once its gone.
We need to be asking and answering questions of our so called job creators as to whether they are in reality climate change providers.
As Larson separates and drifts north into shipping lanes as an Ice berg the size of a state it will soon be having some company from its companion glaciers
Then the land ice will go raising our coastal sea levels and doing damage with storm surge
Within the next decade every coastal city on the planet will have to start thinking about this