{"id":667,"date":"2009-04-06T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T14:50:35","slug":"wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkins ice shelf collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"667\">\n<p>Since people are wanting to talk about the latest events on the Antarctic Peninsula, this is a post for that discussion. <\/p>\n<p>The imagery from ESA (animation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaEO\/SEMWZS5DHNF_index_0.html\">here<\/a>) tells the recent story quite clearly &#8211; the last sliver of ice between the main Wilkins ice shelf and Charcot Island is currently collapsing in a very interesting way (from a materials science point of view). For some of the history of the collapse, see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/06\/ice-shelf-instability\/\">previous post<\/a>. This is the tenth major ice shelf to collapse in recent times. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe we can get some updates and discussion of potential implications from the people working on this in the comments&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 667 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since people are wanting to talk about the latest events on the Antarctic Peninsula, this is a post for that discussion. The imagery from ESA (animation here) tells the recent story quite clearly &#8211; the last sliver of ice between the main Wilkins ice shelf and Charcot Island is currently collapsing in a very interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arctic-and-antarctic","7":"category-climate-science","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}