Comments:Massive ice shelf expected to break away from Antarctica

Actually it has started to break already. You can see it on the European Space Agency website (http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMWZS5DHNF_index_0.html) also in the news http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5326HO20090404 and http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/placa/Wilkins/pierde/puente/hielo/unia/Antartida/elpepusoc/20090405elpepusoc_1/Tes (in spanish) Images from NASA can be seen in http://decsai.ugr.es/~mrubio/wilkins/

Thank you, developed world (especially the USA and China) for all the political and social inertia that has kept us away from using alternative energy sources. When the ice caps completely melt I hope the bastards at Big Oil are the first against the wall.--72.209.8.195 15:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

so what would happen?
So if (when) it does break off whats going to happen then? Will it float down to the atlantic and wreak havoc colliding into things or will it break up and melt?

Yeah sure there's global warming. It's April 7th and there is snow on the ground in Rochester NY two weeks into spring. This has been one of the coldest winters on record in this area. It seems as though scientists can tell you how temperatures are rising at the poles but when there are record cold temps in other regions nobody addresses those. Can't prove global warming to me until you tell how and why this is happening.

Terrific !!! There are also interesting pictures of Yann Arthus-Bertrand demostrating the consequences of global warming. —fonclea 193.128.124.62 09:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Ice shelf, Day After Tomorrow
In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, an ice shelf breaks in middle for miles; could that really happen? Could it cause massive distruction?