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I do wonder if it's supposed to be shedding ice that fast. #Thwaites #glacier #doomsdayglacier
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As usual Matt Farrell provided us not only with this video... but also with a load of references and other channels on the subject. Huge Thanks for that.
"Doomsday Glacier collapse! Time for MORE human intervention??" [13:14 min]
by Just Have a Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZGGaLgB2io
Quote by JHaT:
"Dec 1, 2024
Antarctica is collapsing! BUT it's a game of two halves. East Antarctica is pretty solid but the West Antarctic ice sheet is perched precariously on islands and held back by huge glaciers the size of small countries. Those glaciers are rapidly giving way, and when they go, we've got a problem! Some scientists reckon we should radically intervene. But are they right?"
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Via #CNN
Scientists using ice-breaking ships & underwater robots have found the #ThwaitesGlacier in #Antarctica→melting @ an accelerating rate & could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise
Since 2018, team of scientists forming the #InternationalThwaitesGlacierCollaboration, has been studying Thwaites, often dubbed the “#DoomsdayGlacier”, up close to better understand how and when it might collapse
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/climate/doomsday-glacier-thwaites-melt-sea-level-rise/index.html
"We were aiming for the moon, we were shooting at the stars
But the kids were just shooting at the buses and the cars
So don't drink the water, don't you breathe the air
And if it's gotten to that point then I have to declare
That you could please bury me with it!
Please bury me with it!"
-- Modest Mouse, Bury Me With It, 2004.
"Relatively warm ocean currents are weakening the base of Antarctica's enormous Thwaites glacier, whose demise could raise sea levels by as much as 7 feet. To separate the ice from those warmer ocean waters, scientists have put forward an audacious plan to erect a massive underwater curtain."
As 'Doomsday' Glacier Melts, Can an Artificial Barrier Save It? - Yale E360
https://e360.yale.edu/features/thwaites-glacier-pine-glacier-antarctica-geoengineering
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Yale E360As 'Doomsday' Glacier Melts, Can an Artificial Barrier Save It?Relatively warm ocean currents are weakening the base of Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites glacier, whose demise could raise sea levels by as much as 7 feet. To separate the ice from those warmer ocean waters, scientists have put forward an audacious plan to erect a massive underwater curtain.
Warm water melts ‘#DoomsdayGlacier’ half a mile every year, finds study
#Thwaites is said to be the most unstable place in the #Antarctic and contains the equivalent of 60 centimeters of #sealevelrise
Warm, high-pressure #seawater causing significant melting under Thwaites #Glacier in #Antarctica. "There are places where the water is almost at the pressure of the overlying ice, so just a little more pressure is needed to push up the ice," said lead author Eric Rignot, PhD
https://interestingengineering.com/science/doomsdy-glacier-melting-warm-water
Research shows Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier could impact sea rise predictions #research #thwaites #glacier #climatechange #sealevelrise #melting #doomsdayglacier
fullSTEAMahead365 · Research shows Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier could impact sea rise predictions - fullSTEAMahead365Researchers present evidence for seawater intrusions occurring at tidal frequencies over many kilometers beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, a major contributor to sea level rise. The results call into question the traditional approach of modeling a fixed, abrupt transition from grounded ice to ice floating in the ocean with no ice melt at the transition boundary.
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘#DoomsdayGlacier’ with potentially dire impacts on #SeaLevelRise
By Laura Paddison, CNN
Published May 22, 2024
"The #ThwaitesGlacier in #WestAntarctica — nicknamed the 'Doomsday Glacier' because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise — is the world’s widest glacier and roughly the size of Florida. It’s also #Antarctica’s most vulnerable and unstable glacier, in large part because the land on which it sits slopes downward, allowing ocean waters to eat away at its ice.
"#Thwaites, which already contributes 4% to global #Sea Level rise, holds enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 2 feet. But because it also acts as a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, scientists have estimated its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet of sea level rise — a catastrophe for the world’s #coastal communities."
CBS: The doomsday glacier is undergoing "vigorous ice melt" that could reshape sea level rise projections https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doomsday-glacier-ice-melt-sea-level-rise-projections/ #doomsdayglacier #glacier #melting #doomsday #climate
#DidYouKnow: Thwaites #Glacier, nicknamed the #DoomsdayGlacier, is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier flowing into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea.
The Thwaites Glacier is melting in unexpected ways that could lead to its rapid collapse and it could drive catastrophic sea level rise.
#Antarctica’s ‘#doomsdayglacier’ began melting in mid-20th century: Study
According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, West Antarctica's #ThwaitesGlacier began rapidly receding in the 1940s -- much earlier than scientists had previous thought.
It's often referred to as the "doomsday #glacier" due to the potentially catastrophic consequences of its hypothetical collapse.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4492340-antarcticas-doomsday-glacier-began-melting-in-mid-twentieth-century-study/ #sealevelrise #climatechange
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“The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is the world’s widest and roughly the size of Florida. Scientists knew it had been losing ice at an accelerating rate since the 1970s, but because satellite data only goes back a few decades, they didn’t know exactly when significant melting began.
Now there is an answer to this question, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
By analyzing marine sediment cores extracted from beneath the ocean floor, researchers found the glacier began to significantly retreat in the 1940s, likely kicked off by a very strong El Niño event — a natural climate fluctuation which tends to have a warming impact.”
CNN · The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is rapidly melting. Scientists now have evidence for when it started and why
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#DidYouKnow: Thwaites #Glacier, nicknamed the #DoomsdayGlacier, is an unusually broad and vast Antarctic glacier flowing into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea.
The Thwaites Glacier is melting in unexpected ways that could lead to its rapid collapse and it could drive catastrophic sea level rise.
Scientists say the clock is ticking after unexpected findings at #Antarctica’s #DoomsdayGlacier https://www.fastcompany.com/90851700/antarctica-doomsday-glacier-melting-global-warming-climate-change #ClimateChange
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"So don't drink the water, don't you breathe the air.
If it's gotten to that point then I have to declare:
That you please bury me with it!
Please bury me with it!"
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"Ice age heat wave, can't complain
If the world's at large, why should I remain?
Walked away to another planet
Gonna find another place, maybe one I can stand"
- #ModestMouse
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So-called #Doomsday Glacier is 'in trouble,' scientists say after finding surprising formations under ice shelf
Researchers have estimated global sea level could ultimately rise around 10 feet if the Thwaites, which acts like a natural dam, collapsed in Antarctica.
By Laura Paddison, CNN, Feb 15, 2023
"Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" -- nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level rise -- is melting rapidly in unexpected ways, according to new research.
"The Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida and is located in West Antarctica. 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.
"But the crucial ice shelf is highly vulnerable as the ocean warms.
"In two studies, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, scientists revealed while the pace of melting underneath much of the ice shelf is slower than previously thought, deep cracks and 'staircase' formations in the ice are melting much faster."
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A Robot Finds More Trouble Under the #DoomsdayGlacier
https://www.wired.com/story/a-robot-finds-more-trouble-under-the-doomsday-glacier/
#glaciers #climate #ClimateChange
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WIREDA Robot Finds More Trouble Under the Doomsday Glacier