Posted on 12/16/2021 7:27:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned Wednesday.
A dramatic chain reaction in the ice could occur by 2031, starting with the Thwaites Glacier, said Erin Pettit, a professor at Oregon State University who studies glacier and ice sheet dynamics.
New research Pettit presented to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans suggests the final collapse of the ice shelf may occur "within as little as 5 years" and mark the beginning of the end of the Thwaites Glacier.
Thwaites is the “widest glacier in the world” and has “doubled its outflow speed within the last 30 years,” said Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a contributor to the research.
All the water in the Thwaites Glacier would raise sea levels by 2 feet — but if its collapse triggers nearby glaciers to fall, the global sea level could rise by up to 10 feet, Scambos said.
A series of scientific studies of Thwaites in recent years has shown the enormous glacier is melting more quickly and in ways scientists never expected.
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NBC garbage
The vast majority of people don’t get past the headlines.
Trump’s fault.
If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were candy and nuts we’d all have a Merry Christmas.
Maybe God wants to get in on the action. “I see your measly few feet and raise you several thousand”. Honestly, the planet is in dire need of a complete reboot.
We’ve seen gigantic ice floes cracking off since at least the 1960’s when satellites became available to monitor the Antarctic ice shelves. This is definitely not news.
More fear porn brought to you by the same crowd who told us in 2000 that we only have ten years to save the planet, that New York City would be underwater by now, that snowfalls are “a thing of the past,” and who switched from “global warming” to “climate change” because the warming predictions proved to be wrong.
That much? How many foot rise in the sea level is needed to flood out the Rio Grande?
When bammy sells his two ocean front properties I may get concerned.
Should have gotten the booster shot.
Is Obama’s beach front house for sale? Then I do not believe this.
Doncha love it when these scientific reports state "4 percent of annual global sea level rise" or "could rise to 25%"? But why should they give you enough information to assess what that means...it sounds far more scary this way. How scary would it be to say: "The rise could increase by 4% of the 0.0001" annual rise in sea levels. This means sea levels might rise by as much as 0.000004 of an inch in a year, or 1" in the next 250,000 years!
What would happen to Bamny’s Ocean side shack?
Antarctica has been getting COLDER. Not everyone is a chump!
No, but if we also bought gas leaf blowers, gas lawn mowers and gas generators it might get the job done. Just ask gov Newsom.
yada yada yada. fuck the media and their bullshit fear stories. they need to be held accountable for their lies
It sucks when underwater volcanos are responsible for your “melt.”
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Damn those anthropogenic underwater volcanoes! We need to move to solar and wind powered cars to stop this runaway volcanic activity. /sarc
I sure hope so. That’s why I bought property in Otisberg and Marina Del Lex.
yada yada yada. fuck the media and their bullshit fear stories. they need to be held accountable for their lies
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