Giant #icebergs once drifted off the coast of Britain, scientists find - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/24/giant-icebergs-once-drifted-off-the-coast-of-britain-scientists-find amazing images
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Iceberg underside in East Greenland.
Photo by Franco Banfi
The majestic Perito Moreno Glacier extends into Argentino Lake, surrounded by rugged snow-capped mountains and endless forests and trees. It is a combination of a harsh, cold environment softened by a cluster of flowering trees in the foreground.
#glacier #argentina #patagonia #mountains #snowcapped #landscape #landscapephotography #icebergs #losglaciares #worldheritage #unesco #cold #rugged #AYearForArt #buyIntoArt #giftideas #wallart #artforsale @joancarroll
https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/perito-moreno-glacier-argentina-2-joan-carroll.html
An iceberg is seen close to Nuuk, Greenland, September 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
How the mournful songs of icebergs reverberate around the world
Icebergs produce some of the loudest natural noises in the oceans. Can we learn anything about their birth, life and death by listening in?
By Richard Gray
Caption figure below: Iceberg songs are generated by harmonic tremours that occur when icebergs rub against each other or scrape along the seafloor
Well, in fairness (not that fairness is really a thing in this dire picture), the new US ship captain will be passing out blinders to all of his crew. So the other captains might be waiting to see how that goes.
And the change at the helm will bring new flexibilty--admittedly, not in physics, but in how to ignore physics with real flare...not that there will be other ships around capable of responding to such flares.
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In all seriousness, though, while people already sold on the urgency of climate change can see cartoons like this and understand them, I actually think that this presentation promotes a misunderstanding of a serious nature.
Climate change is not a big event that suddenly happens in one particular moment, like the impact with an iceberg, or an asteroid strike in Don't Look Up. But metaphors like this, well meaning as they are in their intent that you focus on different aspects of the analogy, support the particular kind of denial that the new crew will be using a lot of: pointing to the absence of some singular cataclysm like that is proof none is coming.
And the picture also makes it look like at any time we could just change course and all would be well. It also supports the metaphor that any single person could be the superhero that swoops in to save us by making that singular, smart course correction in any moment before the cataclysm. Neither the problem nor its possible solutions, if any remain at this point, are as crisp and neat and simple as that.
Climate change, at this point, is more like an endless array of ever-more-densely packed icebergs with a lot of small boats each having the creeping realization that this was not the path we should be on and that there isn't any easy way out of the maze. We watch as our fellow ships, one by one, crash into less dramatic-looking, yet equally deadly, smaller bergs and tell ourselves that this is not what's coming for us, that icebergs of that size are normal, that historically many boats do not get sunk by icebergs, that we'll be fine.
Icebergs provide an important source of minerals to the ocean that can attract a wide range of life who come to feed around them (Credit: Getty Images)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241025-how-mega-icebergs-change-the-ocean
Iceberg #A68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241025-how-mega-icebergs-change-the-ocean
"The world's largest #icebergs – which can be larger than entire countries in some cases – break off the #Antarctica ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the #SouthernOcean, they create a unique environment around them... For its short, transient life as an #iceberg, A-68 became a frozen lifeboat for a wide range of species."
This photo was taken on Grey Lake in Torres del Paine national park.
Photograph: John Whitehurst
I've been so busy reading about hurricanes with half of my brain and reading about weird bird and mammal anatomy with the other half that I haven't listened to @KateShaw 's new episode yet:
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/10/07/episode-401-el-gran-maja-and-other-giant-eels/
I'm glad the bloop got featured again, as it is among my favorite noises, even if it's not an animal noise.
[The parentheses are my edits / additions. When reviewing the study & the quotes by Dr. Brearley, the statement about #melting #icebergs not contributing to #SeaLevelRise appears to be specific only to icebergs that melt in a #TaylorColumn. The author of the article does not make that clear, which could lead to misunderstanding. The study was specific. Therefore #A23a’s melt will only NOT contribute to rising sea levels IF it STAYS within the vortex for the duration of its #melt.]
