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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: antarctic; artarctica; doom; doomed; doomsday; thwaitesglacier
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1 posted on 09/09/2022 11:20:14 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Tell me when it’s time to tremble.


2 posted on 09/09/2022 11:22:08 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: dennisw

BREAKING!!! Glaciers no longer present in Yosemite, NYC central park or Chicago!!!!. The day the climate STOPS changing will be a bad day. 😵😎✌


3 posted on 09/09/2022 11:23:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: dennisw
The sky glacier is falling, the glacier is falling.... Uh-huh.
4 posted on 09/09/2022 11:23:54 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: dennisw
Scientists discovered that the glacier’s underwater base has been eroding due to the increase in the Earth’s temperature

I'd like to see the full evidence of this discovery.

I imagine that they may have found some erosion.
And then hypothesized that maybe the Earth's temperature could be increasing.

But that would be a hypothesis, not a discovery.

5 posted on 09/09/2022 11:24:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: alstewartfan

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

Yeah, the “study”.....payed for by grant money no doubt.

Gotta show something or that grant money dries up.


6 posted on 09/09/2022 11:25:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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7 posted on 09/09/2022 11:25:58 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: dennisw

And they really think driving EV’s will change mattes significantly?


8 posted on 09/09/2022 11:26:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dennisw
Complete horse ship. Make the sea level rise by 16 feet? Yeah right. If it raised it even an inch, I'd be flabbergasted.


9 posted on 09/09/2022 11:26:16 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Raise sea level!?!? These people are unbelievably stupid. One cubic mile of water equals one trillion gallons. We are going to need two or three million of these catastrophic events to raise sea level.


10 posted on 09/09/2022 11:26:58 AM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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“...could potentially raise the sea level by nearly 16 feet...”
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I want to see their math.


11 posted on 09/09/2022 11:27:19 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: exnavy

Since when does ice sink?


12 posted on 09/09/2022 11:27:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dennisw

That glacier has enough water to supply a continent with water for a decade. Harness it baby.


13 posted on 09/09/2022 11:28:02 AM PDT by mware
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To: ClearCase_guy

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 artic?


14 posted on 09/09/2022 11:28:20 AM PDT by curious7
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To: dennisw

Is that like the coral reef that was supposedly dead due to man-made climate change, but somehow despite how awful man is, the coral is miraculously healthier than ever?


15 posted on 09/09/2022 11:29:43 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I wish “smart resume” would work for the real world so I could FF through the Burden admin BS.)
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To: mware
That glacier has enough water to supply a continent with water for a decade. Harness it baby

Float it down the Colorado River

16 posted on 09/09/2022 11:29:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dennisw

These people think it will raise sea level... by several feet?

Do they have any concept of how big the planet is? Of how much water there is?


17 posted on 09/09/2022 11:30:01 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: dennisw

Meh, everything is ‘doomsday’ to the climate folks.....everything.


18 posted on 09/09/2022 11:30:02 AM PDT by cranked
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To: dennisw; All

New volcanoes hidden under the ice
Using radar mapping data of Antarctica, a research team from Edinburgh University was recently able to confirm the presence of 91 volcanoes under up to 4km of ice sheets in West Antarctica. Before this announcement, the world already knew about 47 in this part of the continent, making this update significant for Antarctic science moving forward.

I bet they warm things up a bit!

https://www.aurora-expeditions.com/blog/active-volcanoes-in-antarctica/


19 posted on 09/09/2022 11:30:07 AM PDT by Reily
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“... it could raise the sea level by several feet...”

Just do that hydroelectric tunnel from the Mediterranean into the Sahahra Basin, like they’ve been talking about for years.


20 posted on 09/09/2022 11:31:22 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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