climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:29pm PT
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The mountains make the rest of the world mundane.
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Cragman
Trad climber
June Lake, California....via the Damascus Road
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:33pm PT
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Extreme pucker factor!!!!
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Nick
climber
portland, Oregon
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:39pm PT
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Wow. Good thing global warming is a myth.
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Cragman
Trad climber
June Lake, California....via the Damascus Road
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:41pm PT
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Yeah.....we NEVER had glacial calving before Al Gore.
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:43pm PT
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Holy smokes! That is insane! The dense, blue basal ice is really neat to see.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Dec 12, 2012 - 06:45pm PT
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I often used to wonder what kept the extreme of the extreme ice-climbers from doing a berg ascent….
Holy Shit!!!
That was huge.
Just too bad that all of that may be gone some day.
Nice posting
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 12, 2012 - 07:03pm PT
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I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago--it's unreal.
Just too much James Balog. . .
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Dec 12, 2012 - 07:32pm PT
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Wow that was intense!
Cragman, are you really a climate change denier?
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Dec 12, 2012 - 07:55pm PT
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Yeah.....we NEVER had glacial calving before Al Gore.
Dean, you're a smart guy. Get your facts straight, Al Gore invented the Internet, not climate warming.
Susan
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Dec 12, 2012 - 07:58pm PT
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I'm thinking Crag dosn't deny.. he is just
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LL LL
Sport climber
moving thru
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:02pm PT
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Pretty incredible!!!
Too bad we can't predict chaos and then funnel the energy.
Climate Change.....school me please, and I mean it, but hasn't it been changing over the millions of years this place has existed?
Beautiful evening to yo all, lynnie
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:05pm PT
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I always wondered where that burg that sank the Titanic came from.
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:05pm PT
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i bet just the sound live and in person was infinitely more powerful...
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Reeotch
Trad climber
4 Corners Area
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
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Woha! My jaw literally dropped.
I bet the sound of that must have been the most incredible part . . .
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:20pm PT
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Cool!
Or i could say "WARMING". aS in Thats whats going on! OR; i could say
its "WARMING" to my heart, to know its not going the other way. And freezing the water at that rate. Cause Earth would be an iceberg right
Now! i don't move to well in the COLD!
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John M
climber
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:22pm PT
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school me please, and I mean it, but hasn't it been changing over the millions of years this place has existed?
I generally try to stay out of these conversations.. but thought I would give it a go.
Yes the climate has changed over the eons. Warmer at times, cooler at others. We are currently experiencing a warming period. Scientist started looking into why and noticed a correlation between the advent of the industrial age and the warming. So some started looking at this correlation and now they believe that they have enough proof that humans are causing this recent warming. If I understand correctly, I believe that scientist think that they know the major reasons why the climate changed in the past, and none of that is happening right now.
The thing about the warming is that it could spell disaster for mankind. So some think that we need to do something about it.
Others don't want to do anything because
1. it will be expensive
2. they don't' think that what we might do would really do any good, so why waste the money.
3. they don't believe humans are causing the warming.
So there is a big fight..
I think that about sums it up. Though I am certain that there is more to it.
LL.. there is a climate change thread. This should probably go there, but its a bit over my pay grade, so I tend to stay off of it. Take all of this with a grain of salt. I am not a scientist, nor am I very learned in this subject.
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Burchey
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:22pm PT
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To experience that in person...unreal.
I will say, it does pale in comparison to the ice that will be breaking up in LVC this weekend.
WORD!
Bring ya 22s!
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The rock doesn't care what I think
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:24pm PT
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Wow!!!!
They gave a hint of it in the audio. Imagine Manhattan calving off into the ocean. That island is about 13.5 miles long by 2.5 miles wide. The height of the seracs was mentioned at 300 to 400 feet. So those are a bunch of 30 to 40 story buildings packed together side by side on that 13.5x2.5 mile island. Just bobbing around in the ocean like corks.
But if you think that's big, wait 5 billion years when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs the Earth!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant#The_Sun_as_a_red_giant
Eric
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Reeotch
Trad climber
4 Corners Area
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Dec 12, 2012 - 08:25pm PT
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John M You've got some big balls.
He goes straight for the wicked highball with the bad landing!
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