[San Jacinto]

The ice shelf is hanging by a thread - we'll know in the next few days and weeks what its fate will be."

I know I will be on pins and needles. /s

[Old Professer]

He makes it sound as though the shelf is suspended above the sea; if indeed it were, when it broke the “thread” and fell, the sea level would rise instantly causing a tsunami.

The pictures show the sea ice to be floating so any rise in level has already occurred.

Ice-shelving is an annual, autumnal event, now the refreezing begins and the winter snows are soon to begin.

Without the warming summer waters, there would likely be too little cloud formation and weakened snowfall to replenish the ground in winter.

We do have the scientists word for it that a much greater breakup and a near total melt along the Antarctic shore took place roughly 9,500 years ago for purely natural, though not fully understood, reasons.

But it is now time to restart the bandwagon.