Climate alarmist scientists and mainstream media reporters have gone out of their way to portray to public that the current 2009 Wilkins ice shelf breakup is "unprecedented" and due to global warming. Nothing could be further from the truth, since ice shelf breakups occur with regularity and have nothing to do with global warming or climate change. Ice shelves naturally grow; crack; breakup; and melt. **The below images of the always 'here and then disappearing' Wilkins ice shelf from late 2003 and early 2004 reveal this natural development, which is not unprecedented.
H/T: Global Warming Science blog - go here for a lot more information on this subject.