That's actually substantial, comparred to the slow melt climate-change that would take centuries if not millenia. I'm still not sure it's enough though.
According to Al Gore, the polar caps already melted about 10 years ago, so this is fake news.
“Oh the huge Manatee!
Nuke it.
Chicken Little works remotely for every media outlet today
Perhaps I’m not a scientist but doesn’t ice expand when it’s frozen and then takes up less volume when it melts, if that’s true why wouldn’t ocean levels go down instead of up if that glacier melts
I expect Osama and Brad Pitt to be selling their ocean side mansions immediately
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Oh brother 🙄
What if I start to worry?!
If it breaks off, it will float.......
Let me know when Obama sells his beachfront house, and the other elites stop flying their private planes. Until then, I am very confident that the climate change crisis is a fraud.
We are all gonna die tomorrow.
Yes indeed!
The sound of rushing/gushing water keeps me awake at night, sometimes...
So I now sleep with a pair of waders on and a paddle attached to the headboard...
AND our SUN is going to burn out in 5,000,000,000 years!
Can we hope it triggers a mass suicide of leftists, Liberals, Democrats, and the rest of the woke population?
Why the hell isn’t that creepy turd roller in the White House doing something about it? This is happening on “his watch”.
Holy fruit salad, Batman!
snip..."The researchers first noted the volcanic activity in 2007 and verified its existence again in 2014.
It remains unclear how the newly discovered activity affects knowledge about the glacier, because researchers don't yet know how volcanic heat is distributed along the bottom of the ice sheet. However, researchers do know that the heat from the volcano is producing melting beneath the ice sheet. This meltwater is leaking across the grounding line where the ice shelf meets the ocean.
The heat source, Loose and team note, is about half that of the active volcano Grímsvötn, in Iceland.
While the effects of volcanic heat on the Antarctic ice sheets is an active topic of research, this study provides the first geochemical evidence of a contemporary volcanic heat source, emphasizing the need to detect and understand volcanism, including in models of ice-sheet behavior. The greater understanding of volcanism could alter scientists' perception of the mechanics of ice-sheet loss, including in the areas where the glaciers meet the sea.
"Our finding of a substantial heat source beneath a major WAIS glacier highlights the need to understand subglacial volcanism, its interaction with the marine margins and its potential role in the future stability of the WAIS,” they write in the Nature Communications article.
They also note that volcanic activity could be increasing the rate of collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, which is adjacent to the Pine Island Glacier.
A complete collapse of the Thwaites Glacier could significantly affect global sea levels, according to scientists. The Thwaites already drains an area roughly the size of the state of Florida, accounting for about 4 percent of global sea level rise -- an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s."
RESULT: Ice erosion underneath means its thinner, floats more, and is no longer hung up on rocks on the ocean bottom. In addition, volcano created warm water underneath makes the glacier "Slidey" and causes it to go faster. Not climate change and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
... could mean global sea level rise projections...
We could always dredge the oceans to make them deeper!
Send me money so I can study that!