Impact of global warming: The last surviving iceberg in this country was also broken

Toronto, Ta. 8 August 2020, Saturday

Most of the last surviving glaciers in Canada have also collapsed due to warmer weather and rising global temperatures and scattered over large glacial islands. An iceberg is a floating structure of ice that forms when a glacier or glacier flows from land to sea.

Scientists say Canada's 4,000-year-old iceberg, located northwest of Alesmere Island, was the country's last intact iceberg by the end of July. Adrian White, an ice expert for the Canadian Snow Service, pointed out that 43 percent of it was broken in a satellite image. According to him, the incident took place around July 30 or July 31.

According to White, it collapsed, forming two huge icebergs and several smaller icebergs, and it began to float in the water. The largest glacier is in a way 11.5 kilometers long, 55 square kilometers shaped like Manhattan. It is about 230 to 260 feet long and according to White it is a huge, incredibly large piece of ice.

White said that if an iceberg moved towards an oil rig, it could not be moved, so the oil rig would have to be moved. Spread over 187 sq km, the glacier was larger than the size of the District of Columbia, but now it is only 41 percent, or about 106 sq km.

Luke Copland, a professor of glacier science at the University of Ottawa, said the region's temperature rose by 5 degrees Celsius between May and early August, which is warmer than the average from 1980 to 2010. These temperatures are rising even faster than rising temperatures in the Arctic region which is already experiencing more temperature rise compared to other regions of the world.