Giant iceberg breaks off Antarctica - Reuters TV

The reason for that statement is because Antarctica has had very cold temps over the past year, (bear in mind it is also winter there) Hard to say it was climate change related when the facts show record ice levels and freezing temps.

I agree, there is a team that has been studying the ice shelf, which is actually several ice shelves, notes as A, B, C. This particular ice shelf has been separating since the 1980's and as most have noted was due to break away. Just happens to be one of the biggest that we know of. Actually surprised it had not broken away years ago. But I am sure the climate change people will have a field day blaming it on climate change.

These icebergs detach all the time. Like SSG (Join to see) said, what makes this one special is that it is so massive.

Sorta kinda Sgt Wayne Wood. https://amp.livescience.com/15605-melting-glaciers-alter-earth-gravity.html

not what i meant. do not forget it's an ice "SHELF". like any unsupported structure, eventually it becomes unstable.

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly, so apologies if this answer isn't fitting. "What's worse for a natural system in terms of the ability to come back... Volcano's or ... Industry?" My answer would be industry. If the estimates presented by the USGS are valid, human beings contribute 120 times more CO2 emissions per year than volcanic activity.

I would agree with you about larger volcanoes providing short-term, localized bursts of CO2 emissions, but even the largest emissions in recent times don't match human activity.

Again, I am not underscoring the important role volcanoes play in shaping climate.

Not saying you are, well tell me do you think that with what we put in the sky we're going to become Venus within 200-300 years?

(Like I agree that Climate change is a thing, just not as drastic as the emotionally fueled environmentalists think)

Well, we would all be dead before that would even be possible so it would right itself, so no, I don't think we would become Venus within 200-300 years.

Venus is also 30 million miles closer to the sun. I don't think we are going to be left with a planet that has shriveled up and died and has an atmosphere composed of primarily CO2.

There are certainly negative things that are attributed to climate change: droughts, floods, extreme weather, ecosystem depletion, and rising sea levels to name a few.

If we have drawn a conclusion that volcanic emissions are a contributor to climate change, which a lot of people here (RP) have said, then we must also say that human beings are contributing to it as well. Somewhere to the tune of 120 times more. Should we just do nothing because volcanoes also exist and we can't stop volcanoes? No. Is our effect on the climate going to usher in this futuristic Venus-style hellscape? Probably not. Should we still do something about it? Yes.

Well I more or less think that instead of trying to preserve this planet that we should strip it clean of all resources we can from it, and use those resources to get off this rock and go to populate other ones and do the same thing, as all that's going to happen in 3 million years is this Earth being eaten by the sun. We need to get off this planet , and after we gain that ability then we can look to preserving the planet.

Well as I refer to my last statement to the Captain.


"Another thing, there is a city in Italy that every year when the water level rises, all they do is jack up the city and live normally.

It's a slow melt so it's a slow rise, in that case all we would end up doing is slowly pulling back from the coast to the inland that would become the coast."

I believe that as we have for as long as Human kind has been around we will adapt to what ever the planets ecosystem has for us as long as it doesn't become a Venus or one of Jupiter s moons we'll be alright.