A Giant chunk of Ice Floats in the Arctic Ocean

A chunk of ice the size of almost half of Bali is floating in the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole after splitting from a glacier in Greenland.

Two facilities that may be on a path that will pass through the giant iceberg of this are oil refineries and shipping lines. The damages caused could not be seen. In a worst-case scenario, this icy will reach the dense traffic areas where other icebergs from Greenland have sunk the Titanic in 1912.

“This very large ice chunk that we can not get him to stop drifting and drifting,” said Jon-Ove Hagen Methlie, an expert on glaciers from the University of Oslo.

Teams of scientists are busy estimating trajectory floating ice chunk that is currently moving toward the Strait of nares. Nares strait separates the waters of northwestern Greenland with Ellsemere Island in Canada.

Some pictures show the ice chunk with the size of 260 square kilometers. That chunk gets out of the Greenland glacier, the source of fresh water that if melted would raise global sea levels by six meters.

Lately there have been some disasters are by scientists associated with global warming, such as heat waves and forest fires in Russia and the flood disaster in Asia.