#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.
Inside a quest to save “#doomsdayglacier”
#AreteGlacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of #sealevelrise and explore possibility of refreezing #glaciers in place. #Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than Florida, a wall of ice that reaches nearly 4,000 feet above the bedrock of West #Antarctica, guarding low-lying ice sheet behind it. But a strong, warm #ocean current is weakening its foundations and accelerating its slide into the Amundsen Sea.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/21/1113396/inside-a-new-quest-to-save-the-doomsday-glacier/
I do wonder if it's supposed to be shedding ice that fast. #Thwaites #glacier #doomsdayglacier
566 #ClimateEmergency #Antartica #DoomsdayGlacier
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?"
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
‘Doomsday’ Antarctic glacier melting faster than expected, fueling calls for geoengineering…
New studies about the Thwaites Glacier, also called the "Doomsday Glacier," have sparked a conversation about geoengineering as a climate change solution... phys.org #antarctica #thwaitesglacier #geography #doomsdayglacier #climatechange #geoengineering
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJ5bfz-9FU
#ModestMouse #FridayNightMusicVideos #FridayNightMusic #ClimateCatastrophe #NoPlanetB #DoomsdayGlacier #GoodNewsForPeopleWhoLoveBadNews #BuryMeWithIt #MadMaxBullshit #Crapitalism #CorporateJobs #FridayNightJukebox
"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
#climate
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateBreakdown
#sealevel
#doomsdayGlacier
#antarctica
#geoEngineering
Thwaites Glacier won’t collapse like dominoes as feared, study finds, but that doesn’t mean the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is stable
https://theconversation.com/thwaites-glacier-wont-collapse-like-dominoes-as-feared-study-finds-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-doomsday-glacier-is-stable-236480 via @TheConversationClimate
#Antarctica #Ice #SeaLevel #Thwaites #DoomsdayGlacier #AntarcticIceSheet #WAIS 🇦🇶🧊🌊
#SeaLevelRise #TippingPoints
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Hm, 25 years...we all know that #ClimateChange is probably even accelerating. +1.5°C has really been a "pie in the sky, and "only" +2° are becoming less likely by the day.
A study by #YixiZheng, an oceanographer at the University of East Anglia about the #ThwaitesGlacier in #WestAntarcticanicknamed the “#DoomsdayGlacier”—has shown that it's collapse would lead to sea level rise of 10 ft/3m. 1)
I guess you are one of the best persons to ask:
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
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."
Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought.
As the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it’s causing “vigorous melting” underneath the glacier and could mean global sea level rise projections are being underestimated.
#DoomsdayGlacier #climate #climatechange #environment #sealevel #Antarctica
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/climate/doomsday-glacier-melt-antarctica-climate-intl/index.html
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
#ClimateCatastrophe #Glaciers #SeaLevelRise #Antarctica
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...not all the #ice will return.👈
“The impacts of #Antarctic #SeaIce staying low for over twenty years would be profound, including on local and global weather,” #LouiseSime, a co-author on the #BAS [#BritishAntarcticSurvey] study, said in a statement."
"👉The #ThwaitesGlacier in #WestAntarctica — nicknamed the “#DoomsdayGlacier” because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise👈 — is ...
#ClimateCatastrophe #Glaciers #SeaLevelRise #Antarctica
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Via
#CNN
NEW STUDY: "#Ocean water is pushing miles beneath #Antarctica’s “#DoomsdayGlacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research which used radar data from space to perform an X-ray of the crucial glacier."
"...scientists have estimated 👉its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet [3 meters]of sea level rise👈 — a...
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/climate/doomsday-glacier-melt-antarctica-climate-intl/index.html
»Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘#DoomsdayGlacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise.« https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/climate/doomsday-glacier-melt-antarctica-climate-intl/index.html
#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.
A couple feet of sea level rise may not sound like a lot. But if sea levels rose by two feet (0.6 meters) worldwide, the effects on coastal communities would be catastrophic...
#climatechange #climate #ClimateCrisis #climatescience #sealevelrise #coastalcommunities #doomsdayglacier #antarctica #glaciers #glaciology #disasters #geography #environment #enviromentalscience #icemelt #climateemergency https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-plan-to-stop-doomsday-glacier-melting-to-cost-50-billion
