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It was about a year ago Australia was shocked by the stranded of a diameter giant iceberg in the waters of Australia.
We know the "Global Warming" does have a major influence in life and our earth especially in the last 10 years. But anyone who thinks that the impact can already be seen very clearly now. Indeed in recent years so many incredible effects of Global Warming, such as rising global temperatures dramatically, weather and climate that increasingly chaotic and unpredictable, El-Nino is increasingly difficult to overcome, rising sea levels, etc..
But the biggest impact has just happened lately is the stranded of the iceberg in Australian waters. Here's a description that I quoted from http://www.kompas.com :23 November 2009
Hundreds of Gigantic icebergs from the Antarctic moving toward to the islands in New Zealand. Chunks of ice like a great stadium that the New Zealand Government feared to threaten shipping. Results of satellite photographs showed, large chunks of ice had just passed the area of the Auckland's island toward the main island of South Island, about 450 kilometers northeast.
"The warning applies to all ships in the region to be aware of the existence of the iceberg," said New Zealand's marine spokesman, Ross Henderson, as AFP reported. The presence of ice blocks in large group that submitted by the glacier expert from the Australian Antarctic Division.
They continue to monitor the movement of the ice chunks. According to them, those ice blocks are part of a giant blocks seen in last October around Macquarie Island, Australia.
At that time, two large blocks - the first, around two kilometers wide and the second as big as the Beijing Olympic stadium tracked from there. Meanwhile, observed heading to New Zealand last Monday was fragmented in various sizes.
Some of them have a width of 200 meters. "All come from one big chunk, which may be the extent of 30 square kilometers in the Antarctic," said one expert glaciers, Neal Young.Increasing global temperatures and sea level due to global warming has been blamed as the cause.
After three years, according to Neal Young, chunks of ice in large numbers last seen floatingnear New Zealand in last 2006. At that time, only 25 kilometers away from the coastline-the first event after 1931. He believes will more often see the same thing if global temperaturescontinue to rise.
Some experts are not sure of this. The reduced extent of Antarctic ice in Antarctica has been identified in recent years. However, the reduced of ice cover in the east Antarctic region in large numbers, during the last three years, considered the experts as a "surprise". Unlike ice sheet in western Antarctica, which is known vulnerable and unstable, a layer of ice in eastern Antarctica was known to be stable.
According to the excerpt above the south pole is melting and the ice chunks entering into the Australian region. What made me surprised was recently a satellite photograph captures a chunk of floating icebergs in the Antarctic (South Pole) has drifted up toward the waters around Macquarie Island in Australia follow the 100 small pieces of ice toward the direction of New Zealand.
It is estimated that the ice blocks that are marked red circle in the image above is a chunk of ice that is stranded in Australian waters recently. The amount of soluble chunks of icebergs that drift is equivalent to 2 times the size of Hong Kong. Its size is what makes me surprised, imagine 2x the size of hongkong?!.
An Expert Iceberg Glaciologist, Neal Young was quoted by AFP said this ever happened a long ago, but now this cycle happens again. Hong Kong has a 49 km square area, while chunks of iceberg that has a length of up to 19, 2 (almost 20 km) with a width of 5 km.
For more details, following I provide some images that I had :
The world is getting older increasingly unfriendly to humans. It is appropriate that we look in the mirror ourself and start a new lifestyle, who care about the environment around us. Perhaps it is difficult if we change the pattern of life suddenly, but at least start from small things around us. Is it not that a big changes comes from small changes??
At that time, two large blocks - the first, around two kilometers wide and the second as big as the Beijing Olympic stadium tracked from there. Meanwhile, observed heading to New Zealand last Monday was fragmented in various sizes.
Some of them have a width of 200 meters. "All come from one big chunk, which may be the extent of 30 square kilometers in the Antarctic," said one expert glaciers, Neal Young.Increasing global temperatures and sea level due to global warming has been blamed as the cause.
After three years, according to Neal Young, chunks of ice in large numbers last seen floatingnear New Zealand in last 2006. At that time, only 25 kilometers away from the coastline-the first event after 1931. He believes will more often see the same thing if global temperaturescontinue to rise.
Some experts are not sure of this. The reduced extent of Antarctic ice in Antarctica has been identified in recent years. However, the reduced of ice cover in the east Antarctic region in large numbers, during the last three years, considered the experts as a "surprise". Unlike ice sheet in western Antarctica, which is known vulnerable and unstable, a layer of ice in eastern Antarctica was known to be stable.
According to the excerpt above the south pole is melting and the ice chunks entering into the Australian region. What made me surprised was recently a satellite photograph captures a chunk of floating icebergs in the Antarctic (South Pole) has drifted up toward the waters around Macquarie Island in Australia follow the 100 small pieces of ice toward the direction of New Zealand.
It is estimated that the ice blocks that are marked red circle in the image above is a chunk of ice that is stranded in Australian waters recently. The amount of soluble chunks of icebergs that drift is equivalent to 2 times the size of Hong Kong. Its size is what makes me surprised, imagine 2x the size of hongkong?!.
An Expert Iceberg Glaciologist, Neal Young was quoted by AFP said this ever happened a long ago, but now this cycle happens again. Hong Kong has a 49 km square area, while chunks of iceberg that has a length of up to 19, 2 (almost 20 km) with a width of 5 km.
For more details, following I provide some images that I had :
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| Pictured above is a picture of a giant iceberg that recently stranded in Australian waters |
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| Pictured above is a chunk of ice which was taken from satellite |
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