The icebergs Environment effect are melting so relentlessly and Global warming effects such as these are very common when you navigate around the poles. I do not want the readers, but the phenomenon is so widespread as to have been unofficially coined the word to describe cockberg the iceberg partially dissolved to form large penis.

The photo was taken recently in the area between the Antarctic peninsula and South Shetland Islands (map) from Andy Rouse professional photographer whose site offers many shots on nature.

For decades now scientists have been shouting about how human activities are causing serious impact on both the North and the South Pole and now we have our first official pictorial evidence of it all in a huge way. While we did see images of breaking icebergs and melting glaciers in the past, the first ever recorded image of the North Pole as an Island is sufficiently large enough to drive home the point. While the world is not going to flood by another year or it is not the end of days as of yet, the great catastrophe might not be too far away at this rate.

The historic development was revealed by satellite images taken last week showing that both the north-west and north-east passages have been opened by melting ice. Prof Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in the US said the images suggested the Arctic may have entered a “death spiral” caused by global warming. Shipping companies though are already rubbing their hands with glee looking at the commercial aspect of it. (They are pretty low, so no point complaining now).

The Beluga Group in Germany says it will send the first ship through the north-east passage, around Russia, next year, cutting 4,000 miles off the voyage from Germany to Japan. The satellite images gathered by NASA show that the north-west passage opened last weekend and the final blockage on the east side of the ice cap, an area of sea ice stretching to Siberia, dissolved a few days later. If people still crib about this all being a ‘natural cycle of change’ and stop doing what they do need to do then the flick ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ might very well be a reality all too soon.

Via Telegraph