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Biggest ice calving ever filmed

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Just founds this, from the end of last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... C3VTgIPoGU#!
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Where was it?
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kenneal - lagger wrote:Where was it?
Ilulissat glacier in south-west Greenland. This was almost certainly the birthplace of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.
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The Beeb did a program from there late last year. Incredible!
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Media Lens latest starts off with said calving event - all about the misreporting of Climate Change. Includes this:
The notable US science writer Phil Plait 'marvelled' at Powell's 'persistence in unearthing the facts and figures', saying:

'His premise was simple: if global warming isn't real and there's an actual scientific debate about it, that should be reflected in the scientific journals.'

But Powell's findings were clear, says Plait:

'There is no scientific controversy over this. Climate change denial is purely, 100 per cent made-up political and corporate-sponsored crap."

'When the loudest voices are fossil-fuel funded think tanks, when they don't publish in journals but instead write error-laden op-eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their point, then what they're doing isn't science. It's nonsense. And worse, it's dangerous nonsense. Because they're fiddling with the data while the world burns.'
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