Another iceberg about four and a half times the size of Manhattan and measuring some 103 square miles in surface area, has broken off Antarctica. It occurred in the interior section of the glacier, and scientists are theorising that it could be the result of warm ocean water attacking the ice from below causing instability. Were the glacier to melt in its entirety, sea levels could rise by over one and a half feet. Earlier this year, a similar occurrence took place when an iceberg about the size of Delaware broke off Antarctica.
A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll revealed that 55% of Americans now believe that the severity of hurricanes is the result of climate change, compared with 39% in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. The Paris Agreement on climate change aims to curb the use of planet-harming fossil fuel and to strengthen the global response by keeping global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit it even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.