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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Sep 20, 2024, 02:15 PM Sep 2024

Scientists 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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Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2024 OP
K&R Think. Again. Sep 2024 #1
well, shit Coexist Sep 2024 #2
I told you before you thought I didn't know anything Stargazer99 Sep 2024 #3
Damn it wendyb-NC Sep 2024 #4
But, but tsf said it would just make more oceanfront property... rubbersole Sep 2024 #5
We could have had clean energy a century ago. Nikolai Tesla was developing it. Clouds Passing Sep 2024 #6
tiny tim spike jones Sep 2024 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Sep 2024 #8
For this and other climatic reasons, I've been of the opinion that the damage is irreversible... surfered Sep 2024 #9
14+ billion tons more CO2 in the atmosphere 8/24 compared to 8/22 hatrack Sep 2024 #10

Stargazer99

(3,016 posts)
3. I told you before you thought I didn't know anything
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 02:32 PM
Sep 2024

I said screw with Mother Nature and you will pay dearly....but I guess you won't listen until its too late

Clouds Passing

(2,702 posts)
6. We could have had clean energy a century ago. Nikolai Tesla was developing it.
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 04:49 PM
Sep 2024

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.

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surfered

(3,732 posts)
9. For this and other climatic reasons, I've been of the opinion that the damage is irreversible...
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 05:21 PM
Sep 2024

….unless some yet unknown carbon capture technology is quickly discovered. It’s 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)
10. 14+ billion tons more CO2 in the atmosphere 8/24 compared to 8/22
Fri Sep 20, 2024, 07:09 PM
Sep 2024

14. Billion. Tons. In two years.

That's why I always put "carbon capture" in quotes when posting about it.

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