Iceberg Breaks Up

By Miss Cellania in Video Clips on Nov 8, 2007 at 1:25 pm

(Live Leak link)
If someone told me the local iceberg was collapsing, I would be out there with the crowd watching it. This was recorded in Argentina. The show gets more intense toward the end. ~via Ursi’s Blog

Update: I did a little digging, and this has been identified as the Perito Moreno Glacier {wiki} in Los Glaciares National Park. The breakup is a natural phenomena that can be forecasted, but it’s not regular, happening every one to ten years. It’s a big tourist attraction.

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Harley
Nov 8th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I think that’s called a glacier, not an iceberg.
bob
Nov 8th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
If someone told me the local iceberg was collapsing, I’d run away.
grouchosuave
Nov 8th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
True, it’s a glacier. But what a show! But the new agey hammer dulcimer music! Yow! I feel all Enya’d up.

Too bad it’s part of the global warming trend (according to predominant but not exclusive opinion) – planet wide, glaciers have been disappearing at an alarming rate.
Jesse
Nov 8th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Yay for global warming.. :’P
Tayo
Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Ya, that’s definitely a Glacier.
SecretSoul
Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Stunning!!

But why are people clapping? It’s not like global warming is good…
L
Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
The crowd’s reaction is telling. Global warming? Who cares?
Miss Cellania
Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
I thought glacier when I watched it, but I didn’t want to presume, so I went with the way the video was titled at Live Leak.
Chris
Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Aaaahhh sweet global warming.
Can’t wait to see the coastal floods.
Justin
Nov 8th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Is this a yearly phenomenon here? I’m not denying global warming, but maybe this patch of ice has spectacular melts every year…
kid icarus
Nov 8th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
wow, i couldn’t help but feel sad during that entire video clip. although, i also wondered, does this happen yearly? maybe my worm farm isn’t enough…..
James
Nov 8th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
If this doesn’t happen every year then it’s very sad …
Santiago
Nov 8th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
It’s not global warming guys. I’ve been there several times. This particular glacier recedes every summer as it melts due to rising temperatures. And begins forming back again every winter. Global warming has actually caused the size of the glacier to be smaller, but not the actual break up.

Greetings from argentina!
Scot
Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
A crumbling glacier does not mean global warming. Glaciers have been crumbling for as long as I can remember. Footage like this is nothing new. Where did the iceberg come from that sank the Titanic? Crumbled off a glacier maybe? Global warming is a way for socialists to get more of our money and rights.
earl
Nov 8th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Glaciers are “rivers” of snow and ice. Packed snow from higher altitudes is slowly pushed down the mountainside to the valley below. The warmer air in the valley starts melting the ice and it falls off into either a lake or river. I learned this in elementary school more than 50 years ago. Those who believe it is caused by global warming have your head up your a**.
Jimbo
Nov 8th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I am living where a huge glacier once was. It is called GEORGIA. Glaciers have been melting for THOUSANDS of years.

And just think, in the 70′s they were worried about Global Cooling after a 30 year cooling period. Time magazine and every TVnews / newspaper in the country talked a the coming Ice Age.
Pete
Nov 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
God damn Americans are everywhere. Stay home.
Phos....
Nov 8th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
SecretSoul said in #6:
>>>”But why are people clapping? It’s not like global warming is good…”

Kurt Cobain said:
“Here we are now, entertain us.”
buttape
Nov 8th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
wonderful, except for the incredibly saccharine cirque-du-soleil fluffy horrible audio…who would make such tripe?
Kaboom
Nov 9th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Hasn’t anyone heard of glaciers CALVING?

If there are substantial winter snowfalls further up the glacier, it thickens at the ends, and pieces drop off. A natural phenomenon.

People who blame this on global warming are being intellectually lazy, and probably should not be allowed out without a minder.
Ali S.
Nov 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Hauntingly beautiful, yet, I would’ve chosen a slightly less “new age” soundtrack. Oh well, global warming is here already might as well enjoy the show.
Jimbo
Nov 9th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Couple of great videos for truth..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io-Tb7vTamY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAC4kfHruQ

Use your brain
algonkin
Nov 13th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I have mixed feeling about this clip. Sure it’s nice but it’s a deffinite sign of what coming and it’ll get worse even if this is a yearly event.

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