Pine Island Glacier - An iceberg the size of Manhattan island broke off

An iceberg the size of Manhattan island broke off from Antarctica or from the Pine Island Glacier on the southwest coast of the continent.

NASA announced the new satellite photos show that "birth" of an iceberg on 15. of February. What is disturbing is the fact that this iceberg is not the largest that has emerged in this region and that is the "average".

Moreover, iceberg is 10 times smaller than that of the same glacier broke off in 2015., and whose greatest diameter was amazing 30 kilometers.
However, the fact that the new iceberg is just one in a series, rounded legitimate concerns about the survival of a large body of ice that we call the Western Antarctic ice cover.

The glacier, which is located at the top of the cover and that the ocean pushes the ice formed on the territory of Antarctica "give birth" to a new iceberg, but scientists fear that they will be a record, and that in relation to her 30-kilometer-iceberg will be insignificant.

NASA: Last year was probably the warmest since the beginning of the measurement

Data NASA arriving in recent days, saying that last year was probably the warmest since the beginning of the measurement, the BBC reported.

Data from NASA show that temperatures were close to 0.07 degrees Celsius higher than those of 2015. NASA has said that in 2016 the third consecutive year that the stew record.

Scientists say that the main factor of human emissions of CO2. The latest data will be a big shock for humans, scientists believe, as this example was last year.

Furthermore, it states that were particularly warm in early 2016 and is heavily influenced by the time El Nino phenomenon. This is also the global atmospheric-oceanic phenomenon that occurs in the middle of the fluctuation directions of winds and water temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

According to NASA figures, 2016 was the hottest so far, if we consider the record that dates back to 1880.

"The year 2015 was the warmest year until now, and 2016 has just become. The temperature is increased from 0.1 to 0.12 degrees Celsius, which does not sound much," he told the BBC Dr. Gavin Schmidt of the NASA team.