I missed this the other week, but it’s a nasty piece of news: Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of Luxembourg.

Sceptics can claim that this sort of thing always happens, but all the climate change models tend to point to this sort of thing happening with increasing frequency. The disappointing thing is that people may use it to undermine the reality of global warming by pointing to the fact that it’ll make the Atlantic colder.

I couldn’t help but have an amused smirk at this line though:

Although the impact will not be felt for decades, the iceberg could block the production of cold, salty water, known as “bottom water”, which could lead eventually to cooler winters in the North Atlantic…The Mertz Glacier Polynya accounts for about 20 percent of the bottom water in the world.

Is it wrong of me to ignore the global calamity aspect of the story and to focus on the inherent hilarity of the term “bottom water”? It reminds me of the Viz Profanisaurus term for chronic diarrhea, namely “sitting on the gravy rocket.” Chortle.