Titanic and Global Warming?

Question

Did the iceburg from the titanic apart of global warming in the 1912?

Answer 1

Global warming had nothing to with it, icebergs have occurred in those waters long before man sailed them.

Answer 2

Global warming wasn't around back then.

Answer 3

Did global warming have something to do with it?  Well, the iceberg that it struck would have been carried southwards by the Labrador current.  

How does global warming affect these currents?  It's supposed to shift the Labrador current south, which will in turn shift the Gulf Stream south.  (The Gulf Stream - by the way - is an ocean current now travelling from the Gulf of Mexico to northern Europe, warming those places.)  That would - ironically - make northern Europe much cooler, such that agriculture would be next to impossible in places like Sweden, northern Russia, maybe even Britain.  So while southern Europe would broil, northern Europe would become

infertile tundra.  

But, even with that change of direction, the Titanic would still have run into that iceberg, carried south right into her.

Answer 4

Not it was not due to global warming. Actually that was one of the last years of the little ice age. The ice berg probably slipped of a cliff from greenland and floated until the Titanic hit it.

Answer 5

No, icebergs normally calve off the edges of glaciers after the winter, at both poles.

But Titanic was done in largely due to substandard materials used for the rivets that held her together.  Recent examination of rivets brought up show they were made with cheap steel (the company was having trouble getting enough materials to complete the ships it was building, so it used what it was able to get ahold of--too bad they still won't own up to it).

Answer 6

The earth naturally goes through warming and cooling periods. Icebergs are natural for that time of year in those waters.  Was global warming going on yes, was it due to man, science only thinks it does. History shows that there have been times that the earth has been warmer then it is now, some of it pre-human and some post-industrial revolution.  Science has no way to measure the direct impact humans have had on global warming.

Answer 7

Yes.  The little ice age was at its end (since about 1850) due to global warming.  How else can an ice age end?  This global warming effected both hemispheres, but mostly the North.

It usually takes years for the warming to effect ice caps.  Glaciers were breaking apart at the time.  And one of the iceburgs happened to drift in front of the Titanic.

Question is now:  Could the iceburg still be there if the little ice age hadn't ended?

Less chance.