"Fifty years ago, icebergs couldn't move around much because most
years, the sea surface was frozen for much of the year. But recently,
Barnes said, most years, the sea is frozen for less than 50 days a year.
That leaves the icebergs free to drift and blow in the wind until they
crash boulders on the sea floor, pounding and scraping away everything
that lived on them.
"It's catastrophic, really," Barnes said. "They kill 99 per cent of things they come in contact with."
Because most of an iceberg is underwater and some icebergs are
massive, they can cause destruction as deep as 600 metres below the
surface, Barnes added. That means the area of the sea floor that
icebergs are stripping of its biodiversity could be vast."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/icebergs-freed-by-climate-change-decimate-antarctic-sea-life-1.2678222
Wow, talk about fucked up.
Can we all say - global warming is here and and real and accelerating such that both the rate and the intensity of these elements makes it
difficult for all species on the planet to adapt? What does this then say about future generations of said species and their ability to then survive?
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