Posted on 12/16/2021 7:27:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned Wednesday.
A dramatic chain reaction in the ice could occur by 2031, starting with the Thwaites Glacier, said Erin Pettit, a professor at Oregon State University who studies glacier and ice sheet dynamics.
New research Pettit presented to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans suggests the final collapse of the ice shelf may occur "within as little as 5 years" and mark the beginning of the end of the Thwaites Glacier.
Thwaites is the “widest glacier in the world” and has “doubled its outflow speed within the last 30 years,” said Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and a contributor to the research.
All the water in the Thwaites Glacier would raise sea levels by 2 feet — but if its collapse triggers nearby glaciers to fall, the global sea level could rise by up to 10 feet, Scambos said.
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.
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I hope so.
Melting ice hysteria wasnt working. The whole damn things coming down!!!! Dang!
Desperate attempt to scare the people. We know this crap never happens even though they’ve been saying it for decades. but some people will believe it and panic and the rest will use it to further the communist agenda.
It sucks when underwater volcanos are responsible for your “melt.”
May it wash Obama’s and Pelosi’s beach side houses away.
Yet Democrats FLOCK to crammed low coastal areas by the millions. This is just more alarmist Climate Change BS.
Weren’t all the coastal cities supposed to be under feet and feet of water decades ago???? We have heard all these wolf cries of melting ice for decades. Now is just another opportune time for them to cry wolf again.
IF this happened, and it flooded Obama’s oceanside home, with him and big Mike in it, it would be a silver lining.
If all the ice melted, it would raise the sea maybe a couple of inches. The ocean is, like, more than a thousand square meters.
We need enough rise in the sea level to flood the Rio Grande and make it unfordable. Can we do this ourselves by buying more SUVs and pickups?
There are archeological sites denoting piers nd fishing cultures in South American hundreds of feet above sea level. Yes, that continent is rising, but not enough to account for the finds. At one time sea levels in the world were significantly higher than they are now.
And the ice sheets on Antarctica are growing. They have been for years.
God, ten minutes of searching for information Would put this stuff in perspective.
The scientist’s name is “Ted Scambos”.
The ‘dying polar bear’ commercial is getting a new airing these days. So its on.
With the massive flooding and COVID, you will all DIE!
if the glacier is melting, it should be retracting as glaciers do... not expanding and cracking... i guess women and minority beach goers hurt hardest.
Admission against interest. "Scientific studies" have become a tool of pagan, agenda-driven political agitators.
Or not.
“It sucks when underwater volcanos are responsible for your “melt.”
BINGO!!!
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