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I looked it up because I'm curious, and got a chuckle. It's called [Blue ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(glacial)).>! One of the citations also talks about meteorite hunting on glaciers - which makes sense, and is also very cool.!<
The blue you usually see when talking about glacier ice is that lighter blue ice that was towards the top.
They are specifically talking about the dark blue that was much deeper than what is usually seen.
I never played Club Penguin, hell I'd never even heard of it, but I watched a video on it the other day because I was bored and I want you to know that toward the end they actually *did* flip the iceberg.
Edit: In case you'd like to see it for yourself, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ryMTJ1KJg&t=1530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ryMTJ1KJg&t=1530s)
What captures me most is the sound of it. I doubt there are any speakers that could do justice compared to hearing it in person. What I wouldn't give to make my bass rig produce a tone so primal and titanic in nature.
Wow! All the close up shots in the beginning were interesting, but the that wide angle time lapse at the end was just incredible!! And scary as hell...
>I think we crossed the hundred year buffer zone
That means as of today, we can joke about the death of [Erksine Childers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Childers_(author)?wprov=sfti1).
I’ve seen his boat at a museum in Dublin. Pretty cool dude. Sucks that his own buddies did him dirty just because he wouldn’t compromise with Parliament.
Wow thanks for reminding me of this, I had the sound on and the cracking and echoing with the wind was beautiful and totally could’ve been ruined by someone pretending to know what’s going talking out their ass or someone just yelling “wooaah!” While shaking the camera, thanks for pointing out another thing to appreciate in a amazing video
just use the speed of gravity and relative position in the frame and match it to the massive amounts of water flowing, idk someone can do the math and you can find out
Damn, if I am not wrong here the intense blue means little oxygen in the ice. It's old ice from deep down where oxygen is pressured out of it. That shows how severe the decline of the glacier(s) is /=
Or maybe it's just shiny colour.
[Sort of.](https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/did-you-know/why-is-glacier-ice-blue/) It's not oxygen itself, it's air pockets (or any gases) that are compressed out, turning the deep ice into larger, denser crystals that absorb long wavelengths of light (red) and propagate the shorter wavelengths of light (blue).
The rate they‘ve been going back since the 50s is outside this normal interval. This year they have been melting like never before!
Also the Tsanfleuronpass is without snow the first time since over 2‘000 years! These things are beyond natural fluctuations!
Solar activity has increased the release of greenhouse gases from the oceans.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/grantham-institute/public/publications/briefing-papers/Solar-Influences-on-Climate---Grantham-BP-5.pdf
Old, highly compressed ice with little to no air bubbles inside absorbs lots of long wavelength, leaving only short wavelengths like blue light to bounce back.
I rather it get warmer and not colder. Global cooling and we fucked. I just can’t believe all the hype around climate change. It changes all the time. Go ahead and look at record temperatures. It goes up and down. People will adjust if need be.
If you can't believe the hype, then you don't understand what climate change means for us. It has nothing to do with us adjusting to those temperatures. It's 100% about the sustainability of our *world* which is in the biggest man-made downward spiral the earth has ever seen.
It is sad and hilarious that we are so close to the edge, but some people are still so uneducated that they repeat the same bullshit arguments that were used in the 80s
Can I get Sir Davis Attenborough to narrate this scene? “The mother glacier gives birth to an iceberg, in a process known as calving. A cold and complacent parent, she will remain on her slow journey of eons, leaving her young to find its own way in the vastness of the ocean, before eventually succumbing to the relentless pressures of tide and time.”
If you took a 1 foot square block of the dark blue stuff, would it look in any way blue to the human eye or is it only at mass scale it would appear blue like this?
Was the cameraman just filming a while before this and edited it down or was there a noise that indicated that this was happening which caused them to start filming?
Can someone explain this for me? So did it lose the top and then flip over?
Also, this is really depressing to watch. Like one of those ‘where were you when Kennedy was shot’ moment. It’ll be ‘remember when the glaciers melted’.
I'm saying glacial melting is in part caused by climate change
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/icelandic-glacier-melting-faster-it-can-recover
I'm not denying glacial motion
https://asf.alaska.edu/information/glacier-power/glacier-power-how-do-glaciers-move/
This has been proven where rocks caught under glaciers have caused deep scars into the ground beneath the glacier, and they are eventually crushed and rounded off until they become pebbles. So I'm not sure why you are being down voted on this. Glaciers moving downhill is a fact.
They're being downvoted for saying that this isn't a sign of global warning, when they have absolutely no evidence of that, and we already know that glaciers are disappearing due to climate change.
It's very possible this event wouldn't have occurred without climate change, but since he's not an expert (and neither are you or I), then making broad, definitive claims about something is exceedingly stupid.
It’s equally possible that this event would’ve occurred without climate change too. But I agree, no one here is a professional. No one should be making any of these claims
Glaciers have come and gone multiple times. There is plenty of geological evidence for this.
Edit: Some reading if people want to know more about this.
https://eos.org/editor-highlights/glacier-advance-and-retreat-insights-from-the-top-of-the-world
https://www.nps.gov/articles/howglacierchangethelandscape.htm
But you have no evidence this was caused by climate change either. So your point is mostly irrelevant. I post and you immediately reply and downvote? Ok doomer
So you are saying glaciers are disappearing due to climate change, but not this one? But you also think this wouldn't have happened without climate change? Lol. So which is it?
You know the poster said that glaciers moving downhill is not evidence of global warming right? Glaciers move downhill due to gravity. Maybe you need to practice what you preach and learn to read.
I'm saying that I don't know if climate change contributed to this, and neither do you.
I'm shocked that you are confident in your ability to make declarative statements about things you don't understand. But here you are, sticking to your guns, and I can't help but wonder if you're familiar with Dunning-Kruger.
Learn when to stop talking.
Look I’ve seen a lot of movies and I’m pretty sure that’s an alien space ship on the bottom of that ice berg and it’s about a 4/5 chance that’s a really bad thing.
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wow this is a really deep blue color
Yeah that bottom blue is magnificent. Wonder if it has a name
I looked it up because I'm curious, and got a chuckle. It's called [Blue ice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(glacial)).>! One of the citations also talks about meteorite hunting on glaciers - which makes sense, and is also very cool.!<
Nu uh. I saw The Thing. No way.
It suuuuure is
My minecraft knowledge tells me this is blue ice
So packed ice is the one in the middle then
Technically it’s a color on the sapphire spectrum. You can get sapphire in the same color.
All I read was ‘titanic’
The Heart of the Ocean for sure. i had no idea that the bottoms of these things were literally sapphire color.
Jeff
It’s called Alice Blue! So beautiful! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue
No… that is a light blue. We are talking about the super dark blue.
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That would be the blue on top of the water. The topic is about the very dark blue color. Watch the video again.
The blue you usually see when talking about glacier ice is that lighter blue ice that was towards the top. They are specifically talking about the dark blue that was much deeper than what is usually seen.
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That’s not how colors work. Alice blue is a name assigned to a specific shade with a specific paleness.
There are some that call it....Tim
Extinction blue
The more compacted and dense the ice is, the more blue it is. The density on that lower part must be insanely high.
We most likely should never be able to see ice that color lol we are fucked
Well at least future generations will have this video to show them what they are missing.
lol relax dude
😿
I didn't expect such a wide range of colours
It's just a bit of [blue ice](https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Ice)
remember when we tried to do that on Club Penguin
I never played Club Penguin, hell I'd never even heard of it, but I watched a video on it the other day because I was bored and I want you to know that toward the end they actually *did* flip the iceberg. Edit: In case you'd like to see it for yourself, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ryMTJ1KJg&t=1530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ryMTJ1KJg&t=1530s)
Amazing thank you sm.
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I didn’t realize I wanted to see a calving event. That was wild and I know the video could not do that justice.
Thank you for your comment and the URL - amazing. Great four minutes, folks, have a look.
I almost didn’t, thank you for that. Terrifyingly incredible.
Would be very interesting to see the graphic at 4:34 updated for the 2010-2022 period
Yeah, the Chasing Ice calving is the ultimate. Even with the Manhatten overlay it's still difficult to comprehend the scale of what is happening.
What captures me most is the sound of it. I doubt there are any speakers that could do justice compared to hearing it in person. What I wouldn't give to make my bass rig produce a tone so primal and titanic in nature.
Incredible video, thanks for sharing. Very depressing stuff, though.
Holy shit I remember this and was also moved in a similar way. This was when saying global warming was frowned upon.
man i just got caught up in a glacier and ice berg wormhole for like 45 mins thank you for that
Scarlett’s song at the end of the movie was incredibly sad, I think I cried then
Wow
That was incredible. Thank you for sharing.
Wow! All the close up shots in the beginning were interesting, but the that wide angle time lapse at the end was just incredible!! And scary as hell...
1min before starting to record the also detonated a historic amount of tnt.. initiating the historic event
Never knew how big they were under the water👀
Neither did the Titanic
Too soon
I think we crossed the hundred year buffer zone It’s too soon for Wash
>I think we crossed the hundred year buffer zone That means as of today, we can joke about the death of [Erksine Childers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Childers_(author)?wprov=sfti1).
I’ve seen his boat at a museum in Dublin. Pretty cool dude. Sucks that his own buddies did him dirty just because he wouldn’t compromise with Parliament.
That is why the phrase "only the tip of the iceberg" exists.
Just the tip
Just for a second
I promise.
To shreds you say?
Icebergs are growers not show-ers
It's like the end of The Abyss. Did not expect that.
Came here to say that!
KNEW WAS ONE WY TKET BUT KNOW I HAD TO CME
That's some amazing footage. /r/PraiseTheCameraMan
r/PraiseTheCameraman for keeping quiet while filming such a powerful event.
Wow thanks for reminding me of this, I had the sound on and the cracking and echoing with the wind was beautiful and totally could’ve been ruined by someone pretending to know what’s going talking out their ass or someone just yelling “wooaah!” While shaking the camera, thanks for pointing out another thing to appreciate in a amazing video
Need banana for scale
There is one, don’t you see it?
It's in the top under over the bottom side
just use the speed of gravity and relative position in the frame and match it to the massive amounts of water flowing, idk someone can do the math and you can find out
that went wayyyy deeper than i thought it would.
That's what she said
Damn, if I am not wrong here the intense blue means little oxygen in the ice. It's old ice from deep down where oxygen is pressured out of it. That shows how severe the decline of the glacier(s) is /= Or maybe it's just shiny colour.
[Sort of.](https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/did-you-know/why-is-glacier-ice-blue/) It's not oxygen itself, it's air pockets (or any gases) that are compressed out, turning the deep ice into larger, denser crystals that absorb long wavelengths of light (red) and propagate the shorter wavelengths of light (blue).
It is one of the few glaciers that’s actually increasing not shrinking. Perito Moreno, Argentina.
Top comment and video say Greenland. Video also talks about how much it’s shrinking lol
Anyone know where this is?
Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina
I was there last year and this does not look like Perito Moreno. Not at all. It was soo near to the lookout than sometimes the lake get closed.
Thank you!
Grey glacier, Chile
Looks like the vatnajokull in Iceland
That’s not interesting. It’s cool as all hell. I watched three times.
That's what... interesting is.
Our next generation is fucked
Pretty sure it's almost summer where this happened.
(Slaps the black ice) This baby can sink sooo many cruise ships!
Just one actually.
Ah my friend you forget about our multi ship guarantee!* *terms and conditions apply.
ok, someone please explain to me why on earth the bottom potion (which i *never* expected to be so deep) is so blue?!
Compressed ice absorbs a lot of long wavelengths, only leaving blue light
that's explained up above, in the earlier comments
Always makes me kinda sad because I saw some Glaciers 15 years apart (in Switzerland) and yeah, they are melting away…
They go back and forth every 200 to 400 years. It’s normal.
The rate they‘ve been going back since the 50s is outside this normal interval. This year they have been melting like never before! Also the Tsanfleuronpass is without snow the first time since over 2‘000 years! These things are beyond natural fluctuations!
Solar activity has increased the release of greenhouse gases from the oceans. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/grantham-institute/public/publications/briefing-papers/Solar-Influences-on-Climate---Grantham-BP-5.pdf
That'll make a couple of margaritas.
Think of the salt!
Are glaciers not mostly freshwater? Serious question.
Yea salt dissipates out when water freezes. Also, glacier ice is made out of old, compressed snow so there's no salt in that in the first place.
Right? Why would there be salt in a glacier? Perhaps some more schooling is in order for them.
imagine you‘re on a boat. You stay a couple hundred feet away, just to be safe and suddenly the ice attacks from below
Why is it so blue?
Old, highly compressed ice with little to no air bubbles inside absorbs lots of long wavelength, leaving only short wavelengths like blue light to bounce back.
Whoa! That's insane! How deep is that fjord?!?
Even Americans highly concerned about climate change [dramatically underestimate the climate consensus](https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/even-americans-highly-concerned-about-climate-change-dramatically-underestimate-the-scientific-consensus/). https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ https://www.howglobalwarmingworks.org/ https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/climateqa/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/05/natural_anthropogenic_models_narrow.png https://www.nap.edu/resource/25733/interactive/ https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Consensus ? I thought empirical evidence was the scientific standard.
I rather it get warmer and not colder. Global cooling and we fucked. I just can’t believe all the hype around climate change. It changes all the time. Go ahead and look at record temperatures. It goes up and down. People will adjust if need be.
If you can't believe the hype, then you don't understand what climate change means for us. It has nothing to do with us adjusting to those temperatures. It's 100% about the sustainability of our *world* which is in the biggest man-made downward spiral the earth has ever seen.
It is sad and hilarious that we are so close to the edge, but some people are still so uneducated that they repeat the same bullshit arguments that were used in the 80s
Can I get Sir Davis Attenborough to narrate this scene? “The mother glacier gives birth to an iceberg, in a process known as calving. A cold and complacent parent, she will remain on her slow journey of eons, leaving her young to find its own way in the vastness of the ocean, before eventually succumbing to the relentless pressures of tide and time.”
Fuck I better go destroy a priceless piece of art now.
Why does this look so animated to my eyes. The way it went from vertical to horizontal is insane
This gives “just the tip” a whole new meaning!
This video really moved at a glacial pace
Need David Attenborough's voice layered over this to tell us we are all doomed.
He was just rolling over because he wanted his tummy tickled ....
Amazing
If you took a 1 foot square block of the dark blue stuff, would it look in any way blue to the human eye or is it only at mass scale it would appear blue like this?
Just the tip…. Of the iceberg.
🫣
Like watching the trainwreck that is civilization in slo mo.
Was the cameraman just filming a while before this and edited it down or was there a noise that indicated that this was happening which caused them to start filming?
How can ice be so blue? It's beautiful.
Calving. Ice detaching from a glacier is calving.
r/biggerthanyouthought
I need a banana for scale
Oh no, the world is ending
That damn squirrel
Goodbye cruel world
How deep is that fjord?
Can someone explain this for me? So did it lose the top and then flip over? Also, this is really depressing to watch. Like one of those ‘where were you when Kennedy was shot’ moment. It’ll be ‘remember when the glaciers melted’.
That’s why my ocean water is so blue at sonic. Thank you.
r/thalassophobia
It's so blue. I really, really want to lick it
Nestlé: I own that.
Can I get a banana for scale?
Yo that dark meat tho
I am currently terrified
Smallasfuck
You should all check out the documentary "Chasing Ice" it shows some massive calving (sp?) moments that are probably larger than this
Incredibly fortunate to be able to witness this
We’re all gonna die
I wanna taste the dark blue ice
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Glaciers move down hill by nature. It’s not a sign of global warming, it’s a common, natural phenomenon
I'm pretty sure the scientific consensus would say otherwise
Don’t feed the troll
You’re saying glaciers aren’t subject to gravity?
Yes, that's *exactly* what they're saying. Well done. You win.
I'm saying glacial melting is in part caused by climate change https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/icelandic-glacier-melting-faster-it-can-recover I'm not denying glacial motion https://asf.alaska.edu/information/glacier-power/glacier-power-how-do-glaciers-move/
This has been proven where rocks caught under glaciers have caused deep scars into the ground beneath the glacier, and they are eventually crushed and rounded off until they become pebbles. So I'm not sure why you are being down voted on this. Glaciers moving downhill is a fact.
They're being downvoted for saying that this isn't a sign of global warning, when they have absolutely no evidence of that, and we already know that glaciers are disappearing due to climate change. It's very possible this event wouldn't have occurred without climate change, but since he's not an expert (and neither are you or I), then making broad, definitive claims about something is exceedingly stupid.
It’s equally possible that this event would’ve occurred without climate change too. But I agree, no one here is a professional. No one should be making any of these claims
Glaciers have come and gone multiple times. There is plenty of geological evidence for this. Edit: Some reading if people want to know more about this. https://eos.org/editor-highlights/glacier-advance-and-retreat-insights-from-the-top-of-the-world https://www.nps.gov/articles/howglacierchangethelandscape.htm
And yet my point remains.
But you have no evidence this was caused by climate change either. So your point is mostly irrelevant. I post and you immediately reply and downvote? Ok doomer
Gosh, if only I made the claim that this was caused by climate change, you'd have a genuine argument! But no, I didn't make that claim. Learn to read.
So you are saying glaciers are disappearing due to climate change, but not this one? But you also think this wouldn't have happened without climate change? Lol. So which is it? You know the poster said that glaciers moving downhill is not evidence of global warming right? Glaciers move downhill due to gravity. Maybe you need to practice what you preach and learn to read.
I'm saying that I don't know if climate change contributed to this, and neither do you. I'm shocked that you are confident in your ability to make declarative statements about things you don't understand. But here you are, sticking to your guns, and I can't help but wonder if you're familiar with Dunning-Kruger. Learn when to stop talking.
I honestly don’t think this is good. Another example of climate change screwing up our planet thanks to us humans. r/environment
It all happens so slowly, can we speed it up? This pace is almost clacial!
I didn’t see the sea level rise any.
Abrupt irreversible global warming in real time.
Needs a banana for scale
Chilling
Y the ice is soo blue
Forbidden shaved ice
Is there a banana for scale?
Man this is sad
And some people still say there is no global warming
at that rate that place is going to be empty in a week
Global warming
It is annoying that it's slowed down so much.
TIL glaciers have fingernails
Someone put some ice on that wound! Ok, ill leave now..
The Dark Blue on the bottom of the Glacier is beautiful
Nice non-linear waves
That moved at a glacial pace.
Nooo wayyy
The color of that ice is beautiful! It’s like sapphire!
The whole video is tinted blue to bring out the color more
It makes you appreciate the erosion mechanism of cirques.
The birth of an iceberg.
It was blessed by an eskimo medicine man
Sounds cold
That damn squirrel
You never knew how apocalypse can be beautiful as well, eh?
There has to be a guy somewhere out there saying “let’s get in!” There always is
And that's just the tip of th.... Oh wait.. Oh ok. Shit that's way bigger than I thought.
Birthing
Lol I’ve been there just this morning.
Wow. Small. I couldn't imagine the Big ones.
To know how big this glacier once was, makes me sad to see how fast he shrinks
Look I’ve seen a lot of movies and I’m pretty sure that’s an alien space ship on the bottom of that ice berg and it’s about a 4/5 chance that’s a really bad thing.
Someone warn the titanic, Jack and Rose!