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Posted Sun Apr 5 2009: from
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Ice bridge holding Antarctic ice shelf cracks up http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1238945449
An ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history shattered on Saturday and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said.
"It's amazing how the ice has ruptured. Two days ago it was intact," David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey, told Reuters of a satellite image of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The satellite picture, from the European Space Agency (ESA), showed that a 40 km (25 mile) long strip of ice believed to pin the Wilkins Ice Shelf in place had splintered at its narrowest point, about 500 meters wide.
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Heartless Phil says: "At this point, we should just have a cable channel network "Arctic Collapse" or something -- we can watch our world fall apart!"
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By "cracks up," I'm presuming they don't mean its funnybone was tickled.
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