♥ This is some of the last news given by ESA!According with ESA - European Space Angency – from 30 May to 31 May 2008, Wilkins Ice Shelf has experienced further break-up with an area of about 160 km² breaking off. This was the the first ever-documented episode to occur in winter, captured by ESA’s Envisat satellite.
“Wilkins Ice Shelf, a broad plate of floating ice south of South America on the Antarctic Peninsula, is connected to two islands, Charcot and Latady. In February 2008, an area of about 400 km² broke off from the ice shelf, narrowing the connection down to a 6 km strip; this latest event in May has further reduced the strip to just 2.7 km.” More than half!!!
“The ASAR images (…) were acquired as part of ESA’s support to IPY. ESA is helping scientists during IPY to collect an increasing amount of satellite information, particularly to understand recent and current distributions and variations in snow and ice and changes in the global ice sheets.(…)
The Antarctic Peninsula has experienced extraordinary warming in the past 50 years of 2.5°C, (…). In the past 20 years, seven ice shelves along the peninsula have retreated or disintegrated, including the most spectacular break-up of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002.”
Everytime I hear or read anything about Antarctic, and all the problems we will have if we don’t stop a bit to think about it, I feel that I can, not to stop it, but to inform you once more about what’s happening around us - it’s never enough to do it!!!
We can’t be so selfish and think that in our generation, we will not have any problem with the environment or global warming… and think that is only a problem of the new generations will come…
No! It’s nothing like that.
We must notice that we are the most responsible of what’s happening now, and before the new generations will come, we also will have to pay ours bills to the environment.
So, let’s to do what we can do… even few… together, we can make a lot. Don’t stop it!!! Think only about what you/we can do to improve it… and be conscious, for your goodness…
Further Information and Animated Photos:
Thanks to F. Pimentel, who sent me this link.
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário