Somebody's been melting MY iceberg!
Posted on 07/15/2024 2:23:44 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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. They have discovered it started retreating rapidly in the 1940s, according to a new study that provides an alarming insight into future melting.
The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is the world’s widest and roughly the size of Florida. Scientists knew it had been losing ice at an accelerating rate since the 1970s, but because satellite data only goes back a few decades, they didn’t know exactly when significant melting began.
Now there is an answer to this question, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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.
Since then, the glacier has been unable to recover, which may reflect the increasing impact of human-caused global warming, according to the report.
What happens to Thwaites will have global reverberations. The glacier already contributes 4% of sea level rise as it sheds billions of tons of ice a year into the ocean. Its complete collapse could raise sea levels by more than 2 feet.
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Or Brandon? Have the surviving Beach Boys gone on Surfin’ Safari?
Pretty cool, the Obamas now have ocean surf lapping at their back door.
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.
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.
When I saw CNN and more global warming mumbo jumbo, I posted it here to make fun of it.
What ever happened to Uncle Arctica?
LOL! Where is that old pic of Man-Bear-Pig?
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)
Liberal mind control for their idiot peons.
[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.
The rest of the Thwaites Glacier keyword, sorted:
*psst* it started melting 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age
Cats ass trophy........oh noes!!!!!😵💫🌋
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.
Bring it on! I want to grow citrus fruits in N.J., along with mangos, kiwis, pineapples, coconuts, etc., etc. Screw winter!
Turns out the sun is to blame and it started shortly after the formation of the earth.
Damn straight! Global warming! Rahrahrah! Global warming! Sissboom Bah! Can’t wait to scoop out one of them Yukon passion fruits.
Curse you, sun! We have to block you out. (seriously proposed)
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