![]() “And it could lead to even more sea-level rise, up to 10 feet, if it draws the surrounding glaciers with it,” Scambos added in a statement.Įrin Pettit, an associate professor of geophysics and glaciology at Oregon State University, said the ice shelf acts like a “dam” for the colossal glacier - but warm water has seeped underneath it, causing it to melt. If Thwaites breaks up completely and releases all its water into the ocean, sea levels would rise by more than 2 feet, Scambos said at a virtual press briefing Monday at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. ![]() The Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida at a staggering 74,000 square miles. “This will accelerate the pace (of Thwaites) and widen, effectively, the dangerous part of the glacier,” he added. Both published and unpublished studies point in that direction,” glaciologist Ted Scambos, US lead coordinator for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, told the BBC. “There is going to be a dramatic change in the front of the glacier, probably in less than a decade. It is dubbed the “doomsday glacier” because its collapse could trigger a surrounding glacial cascade that the latest research suggests could come far sooner than expected. The Thwaites Glacier - roughly the size of Florida at a staggering 74,000 square miles - extends to a depth of about 2,600 to 3,900 feet at its grounding line, where it transitions from a land-attached ice mass to the floating ice shelf, Live Science reported. ‘My dad’s love taps gave me the discipline I needed to survive Antarctica’Ī massive “doomsday glacier” that is melting in Antarctica could lead to a rise of more than 2 feet in global sea levels when its ice shelf shatters - which could happen as soon as three years from now, according to reports. Sea ice drops to ‘alarming’ levels in the Antarctic: ‘Everyone should be concerned’Īustralian man who fell ill at Antarctic base returned home following daunting rescue missionĪntarctic ice melt threatening survival of emperor penguin chicks: study
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