http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100201116.html
Storm Swell From Alaska Shattered Antarctic Iceberg
A bad storm in Alaska last October generated an ocean swell that broke apart a giant iceberg near
Antarctica six days later, researchers reported yesterday.
The waves traveled 8,300 miles to destroy the iceberg, Douglas MacAyeal of the University of Chicago and
Emile Okal at Northwestern University wrote in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
"One of the things we're debating in the world right now is whether global warming might increase the
storminess in the oceans," MacAyeal said in a statement. "The question we then pose is: Could global
storminess have an influence on the Antarctic ice sheet that had never been thought of?"
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