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Re: â��Maps will need to be redrawnâ��: A massive chunk of ice broke away from Antarctica,  

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...if the ice did not break off and flow toward the equator and melt once in awhile, all the water on the planet would soon (a billion years or so) be at one pole or the other. The rest of the planet would be a desert.

...the shelf that 'broke off' did not break off because it was warmer. It broke off because it was to heavy to support it's own weight.




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“Maps will need to be redrawn”: A massive chunk of ice broke away from Antarctica,
By: clo in FFFT3
Wed, 12 Jul 17 6:07 PM 		Msg. 34073 of 65535

“Maps will need to be redrawn”: A massive chunk of ice broke away from Antarctica, producing one of the largest icebergs ever recorded
Wednesday, July 12, 2017 8:09 AM EDT

A chunk of floating ice that weighs more than a trillion metric tons broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula, producing one of the largest icebergs ever recorded and providing a glimpse of how the Antarctic ice sheet might ultimately start to fall apart.

A crack more than 120 miles long had developed over several years in a floating ice shelf called Larsen C, and scientists who have been monitoring it confirmed on Wednesday that the huge iceberg had finally broken free.
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