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West Antarctica ‘Doomsday glacier’ hanging on ‘by its fingernails’: say scientists
NY POST ^ | September 7, 2022 2:08pm | By Jack Hobbs

Posted on 09/09/2022 11:20:14 AM PDT by dennisw

Thwaites Glacier — otherwise known as the “Doomsday glacier,” due to the fact it could raise the sea level by several feet — is allegedly hanging on “by its fingernails.”

Scientists discovered that the glacier’s underwater base has been eroding due to the increase in the Earth’s temperature, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience.

“Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails,” said Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist who co-authored the study.

“And we should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the future — even from one year to the next — once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed.”

West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida and could potentially raise the sea level by nearly 16 feet should it fall into the ocean, which scientists predicted could happen within the next three years.

Researchers have monitored the glacier’s recession since “as recently as the mid-20th century,” according to lead author Alastair Graham, and have recorded a disintegration rate of nearly double since the last decade.

Earlier this year, an international group of scientists attempted to study the glacier in an effort to help stop the erosion, however, the group was thwarted by a chunk of ice from the doomed glacier.

Graham stated that it “was truly a once-in-a-lifetime mission” and he hopes that the team will be able to return to the glacier soon — since scientists believed the erosion was working at a slower pace before the study was published.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: antarctic; artarctica; doom; doomed; doomsday; thwaitesglacier
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To: dennisw

Antarctic glaciers aren’t melting from Global Warming from “underneath.” Volcanoes are melting it from underneath.

Idiots.


21 posted on 09/09/2022 11:31:32 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: dennisw

More Chicken Little woketard warnings!


22 posted on 09/09/2022 11:31:51 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: dennisw

Somebody tell these “scientists” that glaciers don’t have fingernails. What do they intend to do to stop it anyway? Set up giant AC units powered by windmills and solar panels. ROTFL! Maybe King Chuck will sell the family jewels to save da planet. On a lighter environmentalist note, can you believe the fix we would be in if those buff hunters back in the 1800s didn’t take care of those million and millions of buffalo roaming around this joint? Buff hunters were the first environmentalists.


23 posted on 09/09/2022 11:32:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: curious7

Here’s the part I find very hard to understand.. This could raise sea levels by 16’ within the next 3 years.
But no one is doing anything about this except a group of guys who tried to get close to it and were thwarted by a chunk of ice.
Somehow I don’t think the world community accepts this premise.


24 posted on 09/09/2022 11:32:56 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: 1Old Pro

LOL there ya go. Or fill up that lake where all the mob bodies are being found.


25 posted on 09/09/2022 11:32:57 AM PDT by mware
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To: dennisw

If so, Michelle and Baraq will not be happy.

If i were them, I would sell both beach homes.

5.56mm


26 posted on 09/09/2022 11:34:29 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: dennisw

Another news report on line said the oceans would raise TEN FEET if the glacier breaks away.

That means both Biden, Obama and Gore’s homes will be under water at high tides.

If they are not worried why should I worry!


27 posted on 09/09/2022 11:34:56 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: dennisw
My wife's 70 year old cousin was talking about this and is actually worried! She is also a hard core Democrat her whole life.
28 posted on 09/09/2022 11:35:17 AM PDT by 4yearlurker
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To: dennisw

I’m not buying this melting glacier crap. I haven’t seen one story where they found a body in a 55 gallon drum thrown in the glacier by the Neanderthal mob.


29 posted on 09/09/2022 11:36:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

A glacier floating on the ocean has already displaced exactly the amount of water that will be produced when it breaks off and melts. The sea level change will be zero. This story does not pass the test of a high school physics class.


30 posted on 09/09/2022 11:36:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: curious7
"I’d like to see their evidence that the earth’s temp has increased over the past 15 years. Did they consider there may be undersea volcanoes warming the underside up, as there are in the arctic?" Indeed so. In fact, NPR effed up by letting out this little jem a few years back - note the location. Science Aug 25, 2017 1:08 PM EDT Scottish scientists have detected 91 volcanoes under a massive ice sheet in west Antarctica, potentially revealing one of the largest volcanic regions on Earth. The 'scientists' will probably 'discover' that the volcanos were caused by - wait for it - climate change.
31 posted on 09/09/2022 11:36:47 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: alstewartfan; Chode; SkyDancer; Salamander; carriage_hill; Lockbox; MtnClimber; nascarnation; ...
Don't worry if You are in the Northern Hemisphere.

Antartica is in the Southern Hemisphere and any Tsunamis or Rogue Waves will stop at the Equator.

Can't promise anyone down under or below the Equator that they're going to be safe so put on Yer Mae West.

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32 posted on 09/09/2022 11:37:10 AM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: dennisw

It Thwaites its turn.

Climate change artists hit hardest.


33 posted on 09/09/2022 11:37:33 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: 4yearlurker
My wife's 70 year old cousin was talking about this and is actually worried! She is also a hard core Democrat her whole life.

She needs to turn off msnbc

34 posted on 09/09/2022 11:38:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dennisw; All

THIS is the main reason I don’t live in West Antarctica.

That, and the mosquitoes. ;)


35 posted on 09/09/2022 11:39:53 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: dennisw

36 posted on 09/09/2022 11:41:02 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: All

I’m scared. I have to do something. If I cruise down there with some ice trays to fill in the cracks, will that do any good? I’d take an icemaker but there doesn’t seem to be electricity service to plug it in. I’m in a quandary here.


37 posted on 09/09/2022 11:41:52 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Vote NOW!! to repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics like your life depends on it.)
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To: dennisw

Grant money for global swarming should be administered Squid Game style. Period.


38 posted on 09/09/2022 11:42:14 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: dennisw

It puts the lotion on its skin!


39 posted on 09/09/2022 11:42:22 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (I BROKE YOU. NOW LEAVE MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND DON'T COME BACK. )
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To: dennisw

I’ll believe it when the grifters Bath House Barry and Big Mike sell their ocean front property.


40 posted on 09/09/2022 11:42:47 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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