Calling all iceberg specialists ...

[ChrisGreaves]

Don't look at me. I don't watch icebergs. I stay indoors where it is warm and I can read the news online.

Here's why your freezer smells so bad ... about half-way down the page.

"On a large scale, this happens to icebergs in the ocean. As the sea water freezes, salt is removed. Thus, the iceberg is composed of fresh water, and the surrounding sea water becomes a saltier and denser brine."

And for the past four years I have been blaming Greenland as the cause of the tourist cars hogging Highway 235 on my walk to Swyers grocery!

How can the natural process of open-water (ocean/sea) water freezing extract salt that never could have been in icebergs that calved off glaciers that started 500 kilometres or more inland from the sea, by the accumulation of frozen distilled water?

And should I take the advice of Enzo Palombo and Rosalie Hocking?

Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

Why do they accompany a story about freezers with a picture of vegetables and eggs in a refrigerator?

[ChrisGreaves]

Why do they accompany a story about freezers with a picture of vegetables and eggs in a refrigerator?

Hans, DO try to stay on topic :mea culpa:.

I think that the image in your mind is the one portraying "Volatile Organic Compounds", as if a photograph could capture those things. Better an image of the oil refinery making the stuff which plastic grocery bags and styrenic trays are made from.

Before we tackle anything else besides salt in icebergs, we have to deal with the associated phrasing of "salts can sometimes be concentrated, as pure water freezes at a higher temperature than water with things dissolved in it – like sugars and salts. On a large scale, this happens to icebergs in the ocean.". If I'd known that sugars could be distilled from frozen distilled water afloat in the oceans, I'd have moved to Greenland instead of a frozen rock, and gotten for myself a Nobel prize.

And a multi-billion dollar industry.

As Dame Edna Everage said Don’t judge Australia by the Australians.
Cheers, Chris

[PaulB]

Just enjoy this year's icebergs, Chris.

[ChrisGreaves]

Just enjoy this year's icebergs, Chris.

Hi Paul,

Enjoy? Patent reminder that the snow that fell on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 melted yesterday, and today I was able to see the herculean task ahead of me clearing debris from the yard before I can start gardening.

Not that I'm complaining ... You are reported as having no snow on the ground since April 10th.

Icebergs in and of themselves are not a problem to online addicts like me. It's when I have run out of Bread Flour or Carrots and Onions and I have difficulty crossing the roads because of all the tourists who decide that, since they haven't seen an iceberg since this time last winter, and the winter before that, they should drive up here and take their time seeing if anywhere is open (it isn't, and won't be for another month) and think that old codgers like me have nothing better to do but stand at the side of the road while they drift past like a funeral procession.

Not that I'm complaining ...

On my trip to fix the church computer in Catalina two weeks ago, the entire bay was full of slob, yea! Even unto Port Union where we went to see if it was open for lunch (it wasn't, and won't be for another month)

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Not that I'm complaining ...

Cheers, Chris