Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf on the verge of collapse
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, the largest in the Antarctic Peninsula is “hanging by a thread — we’ll know in the next few days and weeks what its fate will be.”
Jim Elliot, who captured video of the breakout said to MSNBC.com, “I’ve never seen anything like this before — it was awesome. We flew along the main crack and observed the sheer scale of movement from the breakage. Big hefty chunks of ice, the size of small houses, look as though they’ve been thrown around like rubble — it’s like an explosion.”
My take: Holy Shit!
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