Perito Moreno Glacier In Argentina Collapses (VIDEO)

Every year, thousands of tourists flock to Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier for majestic views of frozen H2O. This week, many have been treated to a rare glacier collapse.

Around 2,500 tourists watched and cheered as the 97-square-mile glacier splintered and ice crashed down, according to The Telegraph. The BBC notes that the glacier reaches a massive 230 feet (70 meters) into the air, at times growing large enough to separate Lago Argentino, the lake in which it floats, in half.

The massive glacier sits in the southern end of Argentina, near the city of El Calafate in Santa Cruz province, according to the International Business Times. ABC News writes that diamonds in the rough have nothing on this glacier in the sea, either; the titanic ice fall was first recorded in 1917, but has only since happened two other times, most recently in 2008.

Comments

[Jorgelzorro]

09:02 PM on 03/06/2012

Rare?you better get used to it,glibal warming its here,don't be denial

[db025]

06:41 PM on 03/06/2012

Been happening for millions of years, even before the protoplasma that became us crawled out of the oceans. Will still be happening millions of years after we're all gone.

[JoeAnomie]

02:55 PM on 03/06/2012

I enjoyed the way the news commentator pronounced "glacier".

[jmad]

12:19 PM on 03/06/2012

25 second ad for a 27 second view sucks. No one watches them.

[Jose Quirogga]

11:27 AM on 03/06/2012

mmmmmm....this is a LIE. The "bridge"of ice that fell, actually ocurred when the park was closed.
this park closes at 8 pm and the bridge fell at around 4 am.
I know cause I was there waiting all day and they kicked us out of the park.This happened between Sat and Sunday of last week. And to top everything, there was a major storm that night.
This HUFF place lies to much.

[JDGragg]

11:24 AM on 03/06/2012

(2 of 2) These are the same folks that have now set back any progress that the GM group has ever made, so don't be getting uppity in our faces because we caught you lying, we simply do not trust you now! Get it? It's really not all that hard to understand. As for GM, yes, to a point it is common sense that co2 does contribute to earths temperature, but it is more like the same as using your oven in the kitchen during summer, you just do not feel uncomfortable using it in the winter! Furthermore, I do not hear/see any one here discussing the earths magnetic fields and this tells me that none of you have actually performed hardly any due diligence to what you are talking about. You must go beyond snippets in news reports, especially now days when the news reporters do nothing but sit at a desk and read blogs all day and then do nothing more than put their personal spin on it. The earths axis tomorrow. J.D.Gragg

[JDGragg]

11:24 AM on 03/06/2012

(1 of 2) I read many comments about the glaciers and I just about do not know where to start, but to the comment that "they only thought they knew everything back then, but it is we that really know what is going on now" is typical of people and is a larger part of the problem as they THINK they know more. Every generation "think" they know more than the last one as they feel 'progressed', but just consider not all progression is in the right direction! "Man (and women)" have actually not been on this planet long enough to know what the natural cycles of change that occur and computers do not know it all, they can only compute using the data WE supply it with. If they really knew what will be going on with our climate in the future, why is they cannot tell me in advance that last year at this time we would be experiencing record snow falls & record 'lack' of snow fall in the US or that Europes rivers would be ice! They didn't & cannot, so it is way to easy to make broad claims that 1000 years from now the weather will be different (so prove me wrong), the question is 'how different' and they can only guess. If GW was so "factually based" then why did the GM folks have to doctor their reports, & then use scientists names supporting their doctored claims that did not actually support it!

[LRN2WRK4IT]

10:40 AM on 03/06/2012

Argentina is in Antarctica?????

[born 2b different]

02:47 PM on 03/06/2012

No. Why do you ask?

[LRN2WRK4IT]

04:27 PM on 03/06/2012

Because the headline said, Glaciers in Antarctica.

[frizzlefrap]

10:11 AM on 03/06/2012

not being against global warming .... but ..... that's what glaciers do .... they move ..... then they collapse into lakes or ocean because they flow into a warmer area. correct me if i'm wrong!

[gutz54]

09:47 AM on 03/06/2012

st4/6-- your brain must be the size of a water melon-- you appear to know everything??

[ccruzan]

08:48 AM on 03/06/2012

The controversy over the causes of global warming as well as its effects will be over as soon as we raise taxes ;-)

[dexrmerritt]

07:45 AM on 03/06/2012

Isn't nature just beautiful.

[st4of6]

07:29 AM on 03/06/2012

We call it "Global Warming" because we have no other frame of reference to explain it, nor have we ever experienced anything like it. However, the planet shifts its axis. Its happened before and it will happen again. The life span of the Sun has already passed its peak and is in the downhill slope of its life. Global warming is not the same as "Chicken Little" nor should it be treated as such. Populations rise, Methane released into the atmosphere increases, etc. If one considers EVERYTHING that is happening the possibilities open up. Its not just ONE thing that is going to cause anything to happen but a cumination of events. It's like a mathematical formula, one needs all the variables, not just one to solve an equation. Perhaps if humans spent more time feeding their intelligence, instead of worrying wether or not Snookie is pregnant, we could acheive more. O, by the way Cynthia, if you handle a rose properly and with respect, it wount hurt you....but you can always remove the thorns. Chango369...Jesus was a buddhist.

[Hans Bickel]

10:57 AM on 03/06/2012

Jesus was a Vaishnava, pure servant of GOD, Sri Krishna, that is why he is referred to as Jesus Christ.

[MHB48]

07:26 AM on 03/06/2012

The Great Lakes, the finger lakes of upstate New York, the fertile top soil of the midwestern USA can all be attributed to glaciers advancing and then receding thousands upon thousands of years ago. I wonder what caused them to recede? I don't think there were nearly enough factories around then emitting carbon and ozone killing gases into the atmosphere to do that. What could it have been? Human beings just HAD to have caused it then just like they are causing it now...right?

[HoratioGalt]

08:43 AM on 03/06/2012

The argument that you're trying t

[leanforewort]

08:58 AM on 03/06/2012

No, no, no. You don't get it, MHB48. It's 2012 and we have now figured it all out. We know about stuff and we people and scientists are smarter with computers to tell us even more stuff. I mean, I'm sure that like five-hundred years ago our ancestors thought they knew everything at that time. But they were wrong. It's now.

[MHB48]

11:10 AM on 03/06/2012

I know...but what caused it then? And five hundred years from now they're going to be saying the same thing about us as we're saying about the folks that lived five hundred years in our past. The fact is is that we just don't really know. We THINK we know....but we really don't.

[leanforewort]

02:01 PM on 03/06/2012

I agree, totally. I was being sarcastic. As you know apparently know and as I know is that so-called climate science is in its infancy.

[S321]

07:16 AM on 03/06/2012

Please editors..dont make headlines say what is diametrically opposite to what is in the article. The headline made it seem that the entire glacier is gone....when it does what it normally does, the edge of the glacier at the water calves off...like all glaciers do.

[leanforewort]

09:03 AM on 03/06/2012

The editors can't help it. They see a glacier calving and they know what all scientists know which is that's just the tip of the iceberg, so-to-speak. Pretty soon all that melted water will be in your living room! And the editors ALL scientists and teachers and smart people and Al Gore will have the last laugh because they tried to warn you about the climate end-times.