Huge iceberg forms in Antarctica
Scientists are monitoring the birth of a monster iceberg in West Antarctica.
A rift has formed in the shelf of floating ice in front of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG).
The surface crack in the PIG runs for almost 30km (20 miles), is 60m (200ft) deep and is growing every day.
US space agency (Nasa) researchers expect the eventual iceberg to cover about 880 sq km - an area the size of Berlin. It should break away towards the end of the year or early in 2012.
Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest and fastest-moving tongues of ice on the White Continent and drains something like 10% of all the ice flowing out of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the ocean.
In recent years, satellite and airborne measurements have recorded a marked thinning of the PIG, which may be related to climate changes.
Although the crack may be about 60-100m deep to the water surface, the entire ice volume may extend down to a depth of around 500m
More evidence that this whole climate change thingie is a myth.