“An Antarctic ice shelf could crack ..”
The entire earth “COULD” also explode..
We all “COULD” be just dreaming this life..
Jupiter “COULD” really be a monster and swallow us up like a cookie..
Have we had enough of government-financed fear-mongering???
How lazy! We are recycling old scares for a new generation. Waterworld came out in 1995!
Who is this dumb?
“Antarctic ice shelf could crack, raise seas by feet within decade, scientists warn”
There is that pesky word again; “could.” My dog “could” be an astronaut.
what about the definition of “sea level” changing? will all land elevations have to be recalculated? :)
how much of this ice shelf is anchored on land ?
how much is floating ?...with its ice melt offsetting any water level increase like an ice cube in water. See water displacement research.
IF this ice shelf was ALL on land, AND was the size of florida, the affect on ocean levels would approximate the affect of the period at the end of this sentence in relationship to the length of this sentence .
Look at a world map. Florida is but a blip compared to our oceans.
The operative word is “could”. A lot of things “could” happen, but don’t.
My Tennessee Possum Holler International Sea Port needs water.
Could. Might.
Pseudoscience.
Awesome. Here is hoping Obama’s beachfront home is flooded.
IF the “ice shelf” was submerged to begin with, then “breaking off” wouldn’t raise the sea a millimeter ... ever see a full glass with ice cubes sticking up overflow when the ice cubes melted?
10 foot sea level rise. Has anybody bothered to calculate the volume and weight of such an unfathomable amount of water world wide?
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.
Melting in ways scientists never expected? If it's melting it's melting. In what way is that never expected?!
and could not
From Wiki:
“ In 2020, scientists discovered warm water underneath the glacier for the first time.
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In January 2019, NASA discovered an underwater cavity underneath the glacier, with an area two-thirds the size of Manhattan. The cavity formed mostly in the previous three years and is nearly a thousand feet tall, likely speeding up the glacier’s decay. “
Sort of sounds like this is a case of global warming via a volcanic hot spot rather than Gorebull Warming.
We’ll watch to see how many liberals sell their ocean front properties...
...I’ll wait.
The world’s oceans cover approximately 139.38 million square miles. To increase the volume of water in the oceans by 2 feet, this glacier/ice capo would need to contain approximately 58,129,943,224,320,000 gallons of water
Antarctic ice sheet could expand in the next decade. That is just as accurate.
Thwaites Glacier is underlain with significant geothermal activity. It is geothermal heat which is causing it to thaw. Any competent researcher who is interested in Thwaites already knows this. The article is purposely misleading and omitting critical information.
It could. It might. Maybe it will. Perhaps. Possibly.