Somewhere, right now, Al Gore is saying, "I told you so" after a Manhattan-sized ice shelf broke away in Northern Canada.
The separation of the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf is just another indication of how global warming is affecting the polar regions, scientists told The Associated Press. The 19-square mile ice shelf, which scientists say 'suddenly disappeared,' is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
The Markham Ice Shelf separation is just one in a series of bad news in the polar region after a different ice shelf shrunk by 47-square miles, 60 percent of its total area. Last month, seven square miles broke off the Ward Hunt shelf and earlier this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.
Additionally, a near record loss of Arctic sea ice occurred this summer, while unusual cracks have been found in a northern Greenland glacier.
Is it just me, or is this starting to sound like a set up from The Day After Tomorrow?
-- Kat