Antarctic Crack Threatens Scientific Research Station

[Blue Shoes]

Source: Gizmodo

The British Antarctic Survey has a problem in the form of an enormous crack in the East Antarctic ice sheet. Dormant for about 35 years, The Crack began to grow in 2012. Today, it threatens to cleave off the entire ice shelf supporting the Halley VI research station. And so, Halley VI is being towed out of harm’s way.

“If [the crack] continues to move and the ice breaks off, the station would be on the wrong side of the crack,” Athena Dinar, a spokesperson for the British Antarctic Survey, told Gizmodo when asked why the meteorological station is being moved 14 miles (23 kilometers) inland. If The Crack is simply ignored, Halley VI could wind up adrift in the sea.

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/antarctic-crack-threatens-scientific-research-station-1789729611

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There is a crack so large in the Antarctic ice sheet that it threatens to set the entire research station adrift at sea. Yet, global warming is a myth by the Chinese so obviously this is just a cleaver ploy /s.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. But this crack is normal and has nothing to do with warming...

The station was designed to move when calving occurs.

There are, of course, other ice shelves that are melting when they shouldn't be.

[progressoid]

2. "would be on the wrong side of the crack"

That's a pretty good description of what we are going to be living for the next 4 years.