Will New Iceberg Cause Massive Climate Change?

A massive iceberg has slammed into a glacier, causing a part of it to break off. The Mertz Ice Tongue glacier is in the Antarctic ocean. Scientists are not blaming global warming for the incident. The enormous iceberg guilty of wreaking the havoc is more than 60 miles long.

The newly created iceberg is 24 miles wide and 48 miles long. The two giant chunks of ice are floating side by side in an area of the ocean that does not normally have large ice chunks. The chunks are floating just off the coast of Antarctica after their collision a couple of weeks ago.

Oceanographers are concerned that the drastic change in the glacier may disrupt the oxygen flow throughout the ocean. If this happens, large sections of the ocean will be deprived of oxygen and will not be able to sustain life. The best case scenario for these icebergs is that they will eventually float into warmer waters and melt over the next few decades. Worst case, they will remain in the area and cause significant damage to the sensitive ocean ecosystem.

The newly formed iceberg may cause extreme European winters. The famous penguin colony featured in the “March of the Penguins” film is also at risk.