Greenland glacier bids adieu to a Manhattan-sized ice chunk

Nobody can claim this was caused by global warming. On the other hand nobody can claim that it wasn’t.

Andreas Muenchow, professor of ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware says while affirming the 100sqm ice island’s departure from the principal ice-mass of the Arctic. With thickness around half the height of the Empire State Building, the new ice island is now headed for a remote place called the Nares Strait – 620 miles south of the North Pole between Greenland and Canada.
First spotted by Trudy Wohlleben of the Canadian Ice Service, the ice chunk had been hanging around for seven or eight years before breaking off from the Petermann Glacier. Muncheow further says that the ice island could possibly merge with land or disintegrate. If it does not, it will move south to block shipping.