Watch a City-Sized Glacier Collapse (Video)

[HarveyDarkey]

Awe-Inspiring Excerpt from the Movie Chasing Ice
The makers of the movie Chasing Ice were able to capture on film the largest ice calving ever witnessed by humans (so far, but that might not last the way things are going with our planet's climate). It was the Jakobshavn Glacier (aka Ilulissat Glacier) in Western Greenland. The apocalyptic event lasted for more than an hour and when things stabilized, the glacier had retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide!

http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/watch-glacier-size-city-collapse-video.html#mkcpgn=fbsci1

[northoftheborder]

1. awesome; frightning implications

[Arctic Dave]

2. Holy Sheeeeit!!!!!

That was amazing.

That is mindbogling.

[hobbit709]

3. Doncha know there's no such thing as climate change?

[Go Vols]

4. very cool

[formercia]

5. That was a lot of pent-up Energy

Ice instead of rock in an Earthquake.

[progressoid]

6. Definitely need to see this film.

[2naSalit]

7. ...

[Sheldon Cooper]

8. That was amazing, but I wish the camera would have been further away.

I think seeing it from a greater distance might help give an idea of the size and scope.

[leftyohiolib]

9. now that's just great 100 years for 8miles after 2001 9 miles in 10 years

[hootinholler]

10. Kick for later. n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Awe inspiring and terrifying. It also implies that the tipping point of climate change

is behind us.
& R