Hey folks,<p>I'm one of the scientists on Project MIDAS (the team that made the announcement). Happy to answer questions about this. I've also been keeping a spreadsheet of things roughly the size of the iceberg, for journalistic comparisons: <a href="https://twitter.com/mewo2/status/818826891545210881" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/mewo2/status/818826891545210881</a>
you may also be interested in:<p>largest glacier calving ever filmed:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU</a>
This article is about Larsen C-- so this is borderline off-topic, but I always enjoyed this ode to Larsen B. "British Sea Power - Oh Larsen B" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HN0rqVJT4U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HN0rqVJT4U</a>
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
Doesn't seem like that big of a deal considering it's already floating on water, so it's displacing the water it'll make when it melts. No sea rise at all.
Global warming (even if it were to happen again) is not the problem that it's made out to be. History has proven this several times, such as during HCO [1].<p>Not that most people on Hacker News would agree, but I encourage people to do more research on the topic. MIDAS is funded by NERC, so they obviously aren't going to share this view.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum</a>