The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is rapidly melting. Scientists now have evidence for when it started and why

CNN ^ | 26/2/24 | Laura Paddison

[Eleutheria5]

Or Brandon? Have the surviving Beach Boys gone on Surfin’ Safari?

[lurk]

Pretty cool, the Obamas now have ocean surf lapping at their back door.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise.
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Oh please Mr. Scientist, just stop with this crap will you!!!

The earth’s climate is and has always been changing. Man has nothing to do with it. And if this glacier was to melt completely away few would even know about it.

There was a time in the not so distance past that most of North America was covered in Ice. It all melted and the world did not come to an end.

It will be the same if this glacier melts away.

[oldbill]

A floating ice sheet, which is where almost all of Antarctic icebergs come from, does not raise the sea level at all.

Check your iced drink and see if the level goes up as the ice melts.

[Eleutheria5]

When I saw CNN and more global warming mumbo jumbo, I posted it here to make fun of it.

[Eleutheria5]

What ever happened to Uncle Arctica?

[nutmeg]

LOL! Where is that old pic of Man-Bear-Pig?

[llevrok]

How come nobody got their knickers in a knot when, up to the 1940’s, the glacier was growing annually? Wouldn’t the sea level be dropping up until then? (by the logic used today about the glacier’s melting)

[Eleutheria5]

Somebody's been melting MY iceberg!

[Eleutheria5]

Curses. Try again.

[airborne]

That glacier is as poorly named as the Higgs "god" particle.

Liberal mind control for their idiot peons.

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] By analyzing marine sediment cores extracted from beneath the ocean floor, researchers found the glacier began to significantly retreat in the 1940s, likely kicked off by a very strong El Niño event — a natural climate fluctuation which tends to have a warming impact. [/snip]

Thanks Eleutheria5.

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The rest of the Thwaites Glacier keyword, sorted:

• Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the 'Doomsday Glacier' with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise [05/21/2024]
• The 'Doomsday Glacier' is rapidly melting. Scientists now have evidence for when it started and why [02/27/2024]
• Chilling Secrets: Rocks Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet Reveal Surprising Past [06/03/2023]
• West Antarctica 'Doomsday glacier' hanging on 'by its fingernails': say scientists [09/09/2022]
• Antarctica glacier's collapse could raise sea levels by 10 feet [03/01/2022]
• Giant iceberg blocks scientists' study of 'Doomsday Glacier' [02/02/2022]
• Latest warmist doomsday fantasy: Massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica will 'fall apart overnight' and raise sea levels by ten feet [01/03/2022]
• Scientists warn Antarctic glacier could collapse, raise sea levels at least a foot [12/19/2021]
• The 'doomsday' glacier is on the brink of collapse [12/18/2021]
• 'World's most dangerous glacier' could cause catastrophic sea level rise, study warns [07/09/2019]
• "Disturbing" discovery: Giant hole found under Antarctica glacier [01/31/2019]
• Volcanic Rift Valley Under Antarctica Hotter than Expected [06/13/2014]
• Study: West Antarctic Glacier Melt Due to Volcanoes, Not Global Warming [06/13/2014]
• ABC, CBS, and NBC Freak Out Over Melting Antarctic Ice [05/13/2014]
• Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg jumps the shark again -- gets called out by NYT (Antarctic "collapse") [05/13/2014]
• West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Collapse Triggers Sea Level Warning (15 foot rise) [05/12/2014]
• Deciphering Contradictory Antarctic Climate Patterns [04/03/2002]

[TexasFreeper2009]

*psst* it started melting 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age

[rktman]

Cats ass trophy........oh noes!!!!!😵‍💫🌋

[PerConPat]

Water from melting glaciers is quite useful. Nuclear power is very salutary for desalinization of sea water and distribution of fresh water to arid areas. So what's the hubbub, Bub?

[Dusty Road]

Do they realize there’s a good chance that in the past that Glacier wasn’t there, hadn’t formed yet. Earth was warmer and little water was landlocked.

[Omnivore-Dan]

Bring it on! I want to grow citrus fruits in N.J., along with mangos, kiwis, pineapples, coconuts, etc., etc. Screw winter!

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Turns out the sun is to blame and it started shortly after the formation of the earth.

[Eleutheria5]

Damn straight! Global warming! Rahrahrah! Global warming! Sissboom Bah! Can’t wait to scoop out one of them Yukon passion fruits.

[Eleutheria5]

Curse you, sun! We have to block you out. (seriously proposed)