Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” on a daily basis 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.
If we were planning to do anything about it, this would be relevant information, but as it is, it's more or less like those air crash investigation videos where the plane starts saying "TERRAIN. PULL. UP." and the pilots keep going with the turn they were doing, and you can watch the video and think, Jesus Christ what the fuck were they even thinking.
What about Anti-environmentalism? Take the mad scientist approach and try to kill the earth and humanity faster? I mean at the rate we are going, this has a better chance of success. I'm going to put an /s, but you know I'm not a 100% I'm being /S.
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.
That's a lot of beachfront and riverside properties that would end up going underwater.
On one hand, this will fucking suck....however, no one will be able to argue that global warming isn't real as this will be the very real consequences to ignoring climate change.
One major concern here is that the additional moisture will increase the power of storms as well. A great analogy I heard from a climatologist was “this of ice as money in the bank. Once you take it out, it gets spent on weather.”