Aerial View of Large Calving Event on Fastest Flowing Ice Stream in Greenland

[greenman3610]

http://climatecrocks.com/2015/09/02/new-aerial-view-of-massive-glacier-break-up/

Sometime May, 2014 AirZafari ([phone]) guest photographer Ruben Wernberg-Poulsen captured a new perspective on massive Greenland glacier calving. In addition to the massive scale of the event seen clearly from the air, I think we’ve never seen that basal ice so clearly and so graphically from this birds eye perspective.

The video is from none other than the site than that which grabbed headlines as the world’s fastest glacier calved a giant area (12.4 sq km) and retreated (at least temporarily) to a new record minimum between 14 and 16 August, 2015 [1].

A rough dimension of the 2014 iceberg in the aerial video suggests a volume of ~180 million cubic meters of ice. If spread out over the Washington DC Mall from the Capitol steps to the Washington Monument (1.8 km x 0.4 km), this ice would have a depth (~375 m) more than twice the 169 m height of the Washington Monument.

[Bucky]

1. Thanks, Obama!

Or wait, maybe we're supposed to blame this on scientists conspiring to get more research funding. Or gay marriage. On anything other than polluters emitting greenhouse gasses...