A chunk of ice 20 times bigger than Manhattan has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica..
A chunk of ice 20 times bigger than Manhattan has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey first detected cracks in the shelf ten years ago.
This is an entirely natural effect, repeated time and again throughout history. It is a form of self-pruning. If the ice shelves just kept expanding without loosing chunks every now and then, we would all be buried under that ice again!
Nothing at all to do with man-made climate change.
Good to hear the Antarctic is behaving normally.