Alarming statement from NASA about an iceberg in Antarctica

February 26, 2019

A block of ice like eight times the size of the city of Buenos Aires will come off and the Antarctic could have very negative effects.

More than 1700 square kilometers are the measures of the iceberg who is about to part with Antarctic and the NASA He warned against its counterproductive effects on the icy continent. The phenomenon is caused by the union of two cracks but the exact dates are not yet known.

The NASA He published a statement in which he presents a spatial picture of this region when comparing between 1986 and 2019. One can see there the exponential growth of a crack that runs through the west of this area of ​​?? 39; Antarctica. When this crack meets the one that grows from south to north, a huge iceberg will fall and its size is comparable to eight times that of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires.

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This last crack has existed for many years, but was still stable, but in recent years it has suddenly accelerated due to climate change and stretched to four kilometers per year. "This is perhaps the largest broken iceberg on the Brunt ice floe since observations began in 1915."Explained the NASA in a statement posted on its website.

The Halley Station British Antarctic Survey, in the L & # 39; Antarctica It is one of the main bases of research of the Earth, the atmosphere and the space sciences, but before the evolution of the crack, it was necessary to close it twice. Scientists have warned that they are studying possible counterproductive effects on the icy continent and, in turn, the problems that would be generated in the world by the growth of the oceans in case they break down.

The possible release of the iceberg would not come from an Antarctic glacier but from an ice barrier.