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GIANT 150ft Iceberg Is Floating Past Canada, And It's 50ft Bigger Than The One That Sank Titanic
A small fishing village on Canada’s East Coast has been hit by a sudden flood of tourists after a 150ft tall iceberg became visible near its shoreline over Easter weekend, and they might have to get used to it.
The bombastic berg has parked near Ferryland, a remote community in Newfoundland famous for “Iceberg alley,” a stretch of its coastal waters which are frequented by Arctic visitors. At a whopping 150 feet tall, the iceberg is even larger than the one that notoriously struck and sank the Titanic in 1912. Though you won’t find Jack and Rose checking out Ferryland’s newest occupant, the village has apparently become jammed up by tourists eager to see it, and photos of the phenomenon are already adding up on social media.
Since the iceberg has reached shallow water and is currently stagnant, it’s not likely to drift away anytime soon. This could spell out big business for Ferryland, although according to residents interviewed by CBC, the town’s only 2 restaurants don’t open until the 24th of May.
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Cat Meow 7 years ago
As beautiful and spectacular the sight of this huge iceberg is, it's scary. And to know there's still people out there who believe global warming is a hoax...
Robert O 7 years ago
I am not sure that the icebergs are the best evidence to present to climate change deniers as there have always been spring icebergs floating past the coast of Newfoundland. Icebergs which originated in Greenland. Now how climate change affects the icebergs I can not say, not denying, just don't know
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Nancy E 7 years ago
Greenland, shown by high-tech satellite and GPS measurements show the ice sheet is losing ice. It’s melting 8% faster than previous estimates, particularly in areas where the ice sheet comes in direct contact with the ocean. Rising ocean waters and air temperatures are essentially putting ice in a vise grip of warming and speeding up melt. This does not show that the earth is cooling.
John L 7 years ago
Sweep the Leg , I too have a masters degree, which is Physical Anthropology(human skeleton & early hominids). Generally everything about 'Quaternary Science' interests me most, and over its 2.5 million years it has been one huge ice age(Pleistocene), with many periods of glaciation, followed by interglacials, one of which we are currently at the tail end: Holocene. And being at the tail end of this interglacial, we are steadily cooling down from the peak Holocene Climate Optimum of around 7500 bp. It was warmer then than today, and all these kooks are running around screeching about a world burning up? Give me a Bleedin' Break. I'll show you a chart of this Holocene Interglacial below. There are many charts out, and you know how charts go: you can make them look any way you want. But the biggest key here is that all this talk about the next ice age is ignorance speaking. We're already smack right in the middle of one. People naturally don't understand this. Holocene-t...ef2cf6.jpg 
Ok Ha-Neul 7 years ago
rose move the fuxk over this time. there is space for jack
Load More Replies... Cat Meow 7 years ago
As beautiful and spectacular the sight of this huge iceberg is, it's scary. And to know there's still people out there who believe global warming is a hoax...
Robert O 7 years ago
I am not sure that the icebergs are the best evidence to present to climate change deniers as there have always been spring icebergs floating past the coast of Newfoundland. Icebergs which originated in Greenland. Now how climate change affects the icebergs I can not say, not denying, just don't know
Load More Replies... Nancy E 7 years ago
Greenland, shown by high-tech satellite and GPS measurements show the ice sheet is losing ice. It’s melting 8% faster than previous estimates, particularly in areas where the ice sheet comes in direct contact with the ocean. Rising ocean waters and air temperatures are essentially putting ice in a vise grip of warming and speeding up melt. This does not show that the earth is cooling.
John L 7 years ago
Sweep the Leg , I too have a masters degree, which is Physical Anthropology(human skeleton & early hominids). Generally everything about 'Quaternary Science' interests me most, and over its 2.5 million years it has been one huge ice age(Pleistocene), with many periods of glaciation, followed by interglacials, one of which we are currently at the tail end: Holocene. And being at the tail end of this interglacial, we are steadily cooling down from the peak Holocene Climate Optimum of around 7500 bp. It was warmer then than today, and all these kooks are running around screeching about a world burning up? Give me a Bleedin' Break. I'll show you a chart of this Holocene Interglacial below. There are many charts out, and you know how charts go: you can make them look any way you want. But the biggest key here is that all this talk about the next ice age is ignorance speaking. We're already smack right in the middle of one. People naturally don't understand this. Holocene-t...ef2cf6.jpg
Ok Ha-Neul 7 years ago
rose move the fuxk over this time. there is space for jack
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