Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say
Source: Washington Post
Two Antarctic glaciers that have long kept scientists awake at night are breaking free from the restraints that have hemmed them in, increasing the threat of large-scale sea-level rise.
Located along the coast of the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica, the enormous Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers already contribute around 5 percent of global sea-level rise. The survival of Thwaites has been deemed so critical that the United States and Britain have launched a targeted multimillion-dollar research mission to the glacier. The loss of the glacier could trigger the broader collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which contains enough ice to eventually raise seas by about 10 feet.
The new findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, come from analysis of satellite images. They show that a naturally occurring buffer system that prevents the glaciers from flowing outward rapidly is breaking down, potentially unleashing far more ice into the sea in coming years . . .
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/14/glaciers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/
I turned 69 today, so will make it through this. What about you, your children and grandchildren?
Vote Biden.
MuseRider
(34,060 posts)like we should be doing. We are trying but cutting things so they won't hurt too much now. It is ridiculous, we need to be really feeling the push. By we I mean all of us. I am doing every thing I can even though that isn't much.
I turn 67 in a couple of months. I am hoping to make it through this but my kids will not. I would rather they not have to. It is terrifying when I really think about this.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)At best it may now be some sort of mitigation.
But I doubt even that. The path is very clear to 1000 ppm GHGs.
c-rational
(2,581 posts)sickens me. What have we done to our home-this planet.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)According to a recent report.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214049964
c-rational
(2,581 posts)and over the last several years I note as I drive around NYC and the boroughs I am overcome with sadness bordering on tears when I see what damage we have wrought. The next century will not be pretty. Don`t forget the bees. I hear in China they now have humans doing the pollination.
bucolic_frolic
(42,678 posts)sandensea
(21,530 posts)None more so than Africa - which with just 17% of the world's people now accounts for 40% of earth's annual population increase.
...Population...Annual increase...
Asia: ......60%......50%
Africa: ....17%......40%
Europe: ..10%........1%
Lat. Am: ..8%.........7%
US/Can: ..5%.........2%
Australia: negligible
StClone
(11,679 posts)Except Limbaugh's Florida mansion may get a much needed cleansing:
I don't think looking at things through the prism of fear is going to accomplish anything.
-- Rush Limbaugh
So fearless Rush will smile as his shit hole tax free "homestead" vortex will be washed out to seas. Unless tax payers pony up to build more ocean flood barriers-which isn't out of the question.
PSPS
(13,516 posts)Don't be so sure. What's happening indicates a far more rapid increase in the rate of change than even the worst-case predictions of last year. 115 degrees above the Arctic circle, Massive wildfires in Siberia, etc. These things weren't supposed to happen until 2090.
ffr
(22,649 posts)Oh yeah, fresh water shortages. The years isn't quite done yet. I think we can pull that one off too. Maybe a war after that.
So glad we don't have Hillary Clinton in the White House to control matters and unite the power of government and the world. That would have been a disaster!
sandensea
(21,530 posts)Thanks for posting this.
If only we could actually do something about it! I don't doubt that today's youngsters will study world maps with quite a few low-lying areas missing (New Orleans, Miami, Bangladesh, etc.).
marble falls
(56,359 posts)can Jared think loooooooooong and however hard on it without commandeering the sand bags and pumps like he did Covid19 supplies from states that had already paid for it?
There's going to be so many Grand Juries in 2021.
sandensea
(21,530 posts)"Hey, Jar - it's me. Have you heard Antarctica's melting? Well, there might me oodles of oil there - and I want to be in on the action."
"Eww. Oil. My Testonis will get ruined!"
"Who cares about your fucking balls! Get your pansy ass down there pronto!"
"Like - hello? I was talking about my shoes!"
"Oh."
calimary
(80,700 posts)sdfernando
(4,897 posts)Stuff so old humans would have no immune defense.
Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)They do, however, claim to care for them in the fetal stage.
But that's just a means for so-called "Christians" to feel morally superior while trashing everything Jesus taught along with the environment which sustains life itself.
safeinOhio
(32,532 posts)in the SouthEast of the Mitten drinking Fargo. The last 10 years of it I was stuck on the shore of Lake Erie with no ice to fish on. Now no, or little ice up here in Northern Mi.
Feel lucky to have never reproduced. Not going to worry about kids and grand kids suffering.
Yeehah
(4,524 posts)Drinking moonshine on the front porch, watching the sun rise over the Atlantic.