Giant iceberg blocks scientists' study of 'Doomsday Glacier'

AP ^ | Feb 2, 2022 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is.

A large iceberg broke off the deteriorating Thwaites glacier and, along with sea ice, it is blocking two research ships with dozens of scientists from examining how fast its crucial ice shelf is falling apart.

Scientists from around the world are part of a multi-year $50 million international effort to study the Florida-sized glacier by land, sea and below for the brief time the remote ice is reachable during the Antarctic summer.....

What worries scientists is that leading edge of the huge glacier is breaking apart in many places. Even though total collapse of the glacier could take hundreds or thousands of years, the edge is falling apart much sooner. And if that goes, researchers fear nothing may stop the rest from doing the same.....

If all of Thwaites collapses, it could raise seas around the globe more than two feet (65 centimeters) but that could take hundreds of years, scientists say.....

University of Washington ice scientist Ian Joughin, who isn’t part of the research consortium, cautioned that while Thwaites is a big concern, especially the collapse of giant ice cliffs, the earliest his computer simulations show that happening is 200 years from now.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

WE'ER ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!! (before any of these doomsday predictions happen)

[DannyTN]

[teeman8r]

If all of Thwaites collapses, it could raise seas around the globe more than two feet (65 centimeters) but that could take hundreds of years,

and is highly unlikely... am i paying for this?

[eyeamok]

With out of control Global Warming threatening spontaneous combustion on a planetary scale, can’t they just a few days until the glacier has melted??

[TonyinLA]

Artic expedition to measure ice loss halted by too much ice.
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA!!!!!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Time to mine the glacier for fresh water and use it to refill the emptying reservoirs.

[Macoozie]

You know, it’s not like there has never, ever, ever been a really big iceberg before . . .

This unique-in-all-the-history-of-the-world stuff only happens in our liftimes.

because we’re so special.

[Tell It Right]

The rising sea level thing is a bunch of fear porn about a normal phenomenon.

When sea levels rise up enough to make it reach Pevensey Castle in the UK like it did a thousand years ago, it still won't be enough to worry about rising sea levels because the sea levels will barely be getting back to normal.

The same with Pisa, Italy being a former seaport city (a thousand years ago) that's now a mile from the coastline. The same with the ancient seaport Ephesus (a seaport for a thousand years from 3,000 years ago up to almost 2,000 years ago) that's now miles from the coastline. How can we worry about OMG rising sea levels gonna drown us when we have multiple places that historically had sea levels higher than today?

We've had two centuries-long cooling periods since Christ (the Dark Age from around AD 300 to 900 and the Little Ice Age from around AD 1300 to early or mid 1800's). Those cooled the average temps and lowered the sea levels more than their following warm periods have. (Warm periods being the Medieval Warm Period from around AD 900 to 1300, and the Current Warm Period from the 1800's to today.)

Until the sea levels are at least back up to what they used to be they can shove their hockey stick graphs up Michael Mann's butt.

[hinckley buzzard]

Climate porn marches on. No mention in the article about known geothermal heat sources under the ice shelf.

[rarestia]

Even though total collapse of the glacier could take hundreds or thousands of years, the edge is falling apart much sooner. And if that goes, researchers fear nothing may stop the rest from doing the same.....

My God the catastrophism is off the charts. It might happen someday. Maybe someday soon. And when it happens, boy howdy you don't want to be around... when it happens.

[DarrellZero]

Exactly. It’s sad to see what “science” has become.

Glaciers are rivers of ice. They move toward the sea and eventually fall in. That’s what rivers do. When it finally does fall, which it will, it will be because the massive ice up-river pushed it in, not because of “melting.”

Worse still, scientists know this, and yet still give natural phenomena scary-sounding names in order to what, drum up research grant $? Bunch of whores.

[Carriage Hill]

‘”...total collapse of the glacier could take hundreds or thousands of years...”

Okay then, fire-up the BBQs and keep driving ICE vehicles. None of us will ever see it.

[Tell It Right]

I think they do it both for research money and also to be part of the clique. Scientists used to want to be known as the ones who liked to "think out of the box" and always had healthy skepticism. Now the "scientists" who control the most respected journals and universities are practically cult-like in their groupthink.

They're like pre-teen girls worried about being kicked out of the Hannah Montanna Fan Club over daring to listen to another musician -- all while everyone knows that Hannah Montanna was phony anyway.

[Cold Heart]

What would happen if there were no scientific studies for a year?

[Chode]

[G Larry]

They ignore at least 2 truths regarding Antarctica:

1 - It is underwater geothermal activity breaking up the glaciers.

2 - The thickness of the ice across the continent is at record levels.

[Trillian]

Propagandists would be on welfare.

[Eagles6]

Oh, there you go with your racist, patriarchal facts and logic again.

World ends tomorrow!

Wymins and non White people hit hardest!/sarc

[Savage Rider]

Could ... could .... could .... could. What a money-wasting scam ... watching a glacier fall apart in a hundred or a thousand or never years.

[oldasrocks]

Talk about job security. Hundreds of yrs to melt????? Sounds like watching paint dry but much slower.