[Hot Tabasco]

This article is misleading, as usual. The Thwaites Glacier isn't going anywhere since it is land based. Part of what holds it in place is an ice shelf that juts out onto the surface of the ocean. The shelf acts like a cork, holding the glacier back on the land and providing an important defense against sea level rise.

Because that ice shelf is already floating, there would be no effect on ocean levels.

They always bring up the supposed danger of the glacier when the real concern is the ice shelf itself. If it were to break off, then it would allow the glacier to slide into the ocean over the course of one or two centuries....That of course ignores the fact that another ice shelf would likely form and halt the glacier slide.

[TexasGator]

“The Thwaites Glacier isn’t going anywhere since it is land based.”

Glaciers, by definition, move.

[TexasGator]

“Because that ice shelf is already floating, there would be no effect on ocean levels.”

That ice shelf is pinned up by an underwater continental shelf at its outermost part. A “little” melting there could cause a large mass of ice to plunge into the see.