You have GOT to watch this! Glacier calving.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0

Wow, even after they explain it, it's hard to get your mind around how big that is from the video

Also, inb4 anyone saying the shadows are fake or the gravity is wrong

Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing. How can this NOT be climate change related?

Much as i don't really want to get into that discussion...

I don't think anyone is convinced that there isn't a climate change. The question is whether or not that we're directly responsible for it or not. Climate change is natural. It's happened hundreds and thousands of times before recorded history. With that knowledge, the glaciers retreating doesn't surprise me. It's happened before.

WOW!

Impressive

Amazing!

I'm sure I wasn't the only one expecting this (sorry for the bad quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhyuVFTWeJQ

I told those loonies not to build their silly 'Atlantis' or whatever out there.

And

I half expected to see Emerald Weapon emerge from the ice.

Swank Force One wrote: Much as i don't really want to get into that discussion... I don't think anyone is convinced that there isn't a climate change. The question is whether or not that we're directly responsible for it or not. Climate change is natural. It's happened hundreds and thousands of times before recorded history. With that knowledge, the glaciers retreating doesn't surprise me. It's happened before.

Well said and my thoughts too. A few hundred thousand years ago in Southern New England where I live, this area was under a glacier like that. That's why the substrate under the topsoil in my back yard is like concrete, called hardpan, and the area was littered with huge boulders. Who was burning coal back then to cause the retreat of the glaciers? In fact, wasn't coal in the process of being created around that time?

In reply to Gary:

Right.

To be clear, i think pollution is bad, and i'm not saying that we had NO play in the matter, but rather that i don't feel comfortable siding with either side, and that's the question, because we really don't know.

I just get a bit uncomfortable when i see things like "Your Hummer is making the glaciers disappear!"

I bet I can recreate this footage by filming the snow bank at the edge of my driveway. It started "calving" last night when I was shoveling.

My snow bank calved while snow blowing my drive way.

Had to do it all over again.

Swank Force One wrote: "Your Hummer is making the glaciers disappear!"

If I ever get a bravo juliet again (hey man, I've been married 15 years), I'm going to say that. Because global warming is real.

Gary wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: Much as i don't really want to get into that discussion... I don't think anyone is convinced that there isn't a climate change. The question is whether or not that we're directly responsible for it or not. Climate change is natural. It's happened hundreds and thousands of times before recorded history. With that knowledge, the glaciers retreating doesn't surprise me. It's happened before.

Well said and my thoughts too. A few hundred thousand years ago in Southern New England where I live, this area was under a glacier like that. That's why the substrate under the topsoil in my back yard is like concrete, called hardpan, and the area was littered with huge boulders. Who was burning coal back then to cause the retreat of the glaciers? In fact, wasn't coal in the process of being created around that time?

Up in Minnesota, we are taught as kids that we have so many lakes because when the glaciers where forming and coming down from the north, they would break off spears of ice that would get pressed into the ground leaving impressions that later held water and formed the lakes. While it gets cold up there, it is not 100's of feet of ice cold anymore. Catalytic converters did not make it in time to save the MN glaciers.

Cool! But a little disappointing: I was waiting for a Kaiju or giant alien spaceship to emerge.

not going into the politics of Global warming.. I do think that video was very very cool and as much as I hate the cold, I would love to see something like that in person

This video was epic. I'd bet they felt that boom about 20 seconds in. In fact, I bet any playback of that sort of bass would need an epic berkeleytonne of dollars in equipment just to duplicate properly.