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Related: About this forumScientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet
Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise.
Since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites often dubbed the Doomsday Glacier up close to better understand how and when it might collapse.
Their findings, set out across a collection of studies, provide the clearest picture yet of this complex, ever-changing glacier. The outlook is grim, the scientists said in a report published Thursday, revealing the key conclusions of their six years of research.
They found rapid ice loss is set to speed up this century. Thwaites retreat has accelerated considerably over the past 30 years, said Rob Larter, a marine geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey and part of the ITGC team. Our findings indicate it is set to retreat further and faster, he said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-looked-deep-beneath-doomsday-090048739.html
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(19,072 posts)Coexist
(26,202 posts)Stargazer99
(3,016 posts)I said screw with Mother Nature and you will pay dearly....but I guess you won't listen until its too late
wendyb-NC
(3,889 posts)rubbersole
(8,702 posts)...in Nebraska.
Clouds Passing
(2,702 posts)Too bad for everything on this planet the oil and coal barons took a tight grip of control over us all. They are fully to blame! Somehow us normal folk have to put a stop to their insanity.
spike jones
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surfered
(3,732 posts).unless some yet unknown carbon capture technology is quickly discovered. Its comforting, in a macabre sort of way, as I enter old age and face my own mortality, that I will not be missing much. I do feel sorry for younger people as a lot of the planet, not submerged, will be a lot like Phoenix.
hatrack
(61,194 posts)14. Billion. Tons. In two years.
That's why I always put "carbon capture" in quotes when posting about it.