Global Warming Causes Collapse of Gigantic Iceberg

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Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 19 March 2002


*GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES COLLAPSE OF GIGANTIC ICEBERG IN ANTARCTIC

Denver, Colorado, March 19 (RHC)--US scientists affirmed Tuesday
that global warming has produced the most important collapse of a
gigantic iceberg in the past 30 years. The Larsen B Iceberg on the
east coast of the Antarctic, formed some 12,000 years ago, collapsed
in a period of 35 days, according to experts at the University of
Colorado.

The iceberg has been at the center of scientific attention due to the
loss of 5,700 square kilometers of its surface over the past five
years. It is now fractured into several thousand smaller icebergs
floating in the Weddell Sea. In a recent study published by the
Journal of Glaciology, several US scientists warned that Antarctica's
glacier platforms are closer to collapsing than formerly estimated,
and that the process has a clear and direct relation to global
warming.

According to the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data
Center, the mass of floating ice constitutes an area of 3,250 square
kilometers and contains 720 million tons of ice.

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