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The 'doomsday' glacier is on the brink of collapse
Popular Science ^ | Dec 18, 2021 | Sara Kiley Watson

Posted on 12/18/2021 3:38:21 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

One of the ever-looming threats of climate change is sea level rise, which already threatens to displace millions of people worldwide and force them to move inland by the end of the century. A big part of the rising water levels are hotter temperatures at the poles—home to giant glaciers and ice shelves that hold crucial quantities of frozen H2O.

The Florida-sized Thwaites glacier in Antarctica, nicknamed the “doomsday glacier,” is already losing 50 billion tons of ice each year. That in itself accounts for around 4 percent of annual global sea level rise. But unpublished research shared at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting this week shows that the thinning ice shelf extending from Thwaites could shatter within the next three to five years. Behind Thwaites lies an even larger body of ice that, if the glacier melts, will be exposed to increasingly warm waters.

“Thwaites is the widest glacier in the world,” Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and lead coordinator for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), said in a press release. “It’s doubled its outflow speed within the last 30 years, and the glacier in its entirety holds enough water to raise [global] sea levels by over two feet. And it could lead to even more sea level rise, up to 10 feet, if it draws the surrounding glaciers with it.”

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


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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Tow it to California and use it for water to end the drought.


21 posted on 12/18/2021 3:53:54 PM PST by Fungi
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Popular Propaganda.


22 posted on 12/18/2021 3:53:55 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Anyone really believe Popular Science anymore?

From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)

“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”


23 posted on 12/18/2021 3:56:36 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: rellic

“That chunk of ice is already floating in the ocean.
Do a test fill a glass half full with water and put an ice cube in it. mark the level. once the ice melts check the level again. It will not change.”
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Oh, stop making sense!


24 posted on 12/18/2021 3:56:57 PM PST by sevlex
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To: Dutch Boy

What, you mean Obama is NOT selling the mansion on Martha’s Vineyard? It will be flooded in ten years. What’s next, we will learn is he is not driving a Nissan Leaf?


25 posted on 12/18/2021 3:57:04 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Bomb storm!

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

H.L. Mencken

26 posted on 12/18/2021 3:57:29 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I would run around with my hair on fire, but, you know, globull warming and all that...


27 posted on 12/18/2021 3:57:44 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: hanamizu

From the second article listed above.......

West Antarctica is also hemorrhaging ice due to climate change, and recent studies have suggested there is no way to reverse the retreat of West Antarctic glaciers. However, the timing of this retreat is still in question, Schroeder said — it could take hundreds of years, or thousands. It’s important to understand which, given that meltwater from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contributes directly to sea level rise.

Hundreds or thousands of years away with no way to stop it, but lets go back to driving a horse and buggy. What morons


28 posted on 12/18/2021 3:57:52 PM PST by SteelPSUGOP
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Gruesome Gretta will be thrilled.


29 posted on 12/18/2021 3:57:59 PM PST by Bobalu (Figure out what you like, learn enough to be dangerous, and then start fiddling around)
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To: DoughtyOne

Remember the many pictures of sad polar bears on jagged ice floes?

Rush had to remind the school children and adults that the bears were not trapped and doomed-——they swim all the time that’s how they catch fish to eat or move to new places to seek mates.

They don’t need a Navy helicopter to transport them off the ice.


30 posted on 12/18/2021 3:58:03 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Just get your initial vaxxes and 3 boosters and it will okee dokee.

😷💉🦄💩💰


31 posted on 12/18/2021 3:58:05 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hey I won’t have to drive as far to the beach. All those mullion dollar beach front homes will make great fish habitats. Means more fish to eat.


32 posted on 12/18/2021 3:58:15 PM PST by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We know that there are volcanoes below these ice sheets...and you can find plenty of evidence. Yet some scientists insist that the gases in the atmosphere are melting the sheets. The gases are coming from the ocean....not man made. Get it!!


33 posted on 12/18/2021 3:58:18 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Right, which is why Obama and Kerry have bought mansions right on the water.


34 posted on 12/18/2021 3:59:08 PM PST by Singermom
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To: Dutch Boy

Doomsday Glacier! Scared me, I thought Dayton was about to be buried again. After all, it’s only been 15,000 years since the last time. Funny they don’t concern themselves about a glacier receding from Dayton to Northern Canada before man burned the first lump of coal but a little ice melt now is Doomsday.


35 posted on 12/18/2021 3:59:18 PM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: 2banana

Obama, Biden, Gore and rumored Pelosi have all bought beach front properties.

I watched an old movie THAT MAN FROM RIO in which there is a great shot of the Rio beaches, roads, and hotels, in 1964.
Compare it to a web cam of the same area today and you will see no change in the ocean, except the usual tides.


36 posted on 12/18/2021 4:00:00 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
I'm 40 miles inland and 500 feet above (present) sea level.

I'm worried about the Marxists in Washington, not the glaciers and the beach.

37 posted on 12/18/2021 4:00:00 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

if this glacier isn’t being held up by land, then “breaking loose” won’t raise the sea level single millimeter ... has anyone here ever seen a full glass with ice cubes sticking up overflowing when the cubes melted? no? that’s because the submerged ice is less dense than the water, which is why ice floats, and the part ABOVE the water will exactly finish filling the underwater space the ice occupies under the water when the entire ice cube melts ...


38 posted on 12/18/2021 4:00:10 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

See, see!! It’s the size of Florida!! That means DeathSantis is behind this.


39 posted on 12/18/2021 4:00:16 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: packagingguy

I was just as stunned as you.


40 posted on 12/18/2021 4:01:03 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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