If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!!

yep...shit happens...always has...always will....NEXT!

sorry about that I get too excited when the warmists get on here and start spouting. I mixed the Antarctica ice shelf melt and the polar vortex.

What would be interesting would be a sudden collapse of a big chunk of glacier into the ocean.

THAT would potentially create a tsunami to end all tsunamis.

1. A full glass will overflow if you let the ice melt.

2. Glacier collapsing is like droping an extra ice cube.

All I heard was blahh...blahh...numbers...blah..numbers.


There are 3 kinds of people in the world.

Those who can do math...and those who can't.

I know that glaciers have retreated all over the world in the last 100 years but I have not seen any sea level rise. When Gore said 20 years ago that the coast lines of the world would be flooded by now it seems he was talking out his ass.

And those South Pacific islands they say are doomed because of rising sea levels, are probably actually sinking. It would be strange to have localized sea level rise.

:impossible:

that is in part because of change of weight at the poles.

A meteorite will hit this planet and kill 99% of all life...This isnt a if...but a when..also the poles are shifting right now..this could cause the earth to stop spinning the way it is now..causing massive doom...also the sun will mostlikly flare out and kill us all too...so I guess my point is...whats your point?

What horse shit. NO glacier could cause the sea level to rise that much.

Well, it took a massive comet to raise sea level by 400 ft 12,900 years ago...

Remember Arctic icecap used to extend way into northern part of USA which was 1-2 miles high...

It's sad. These are "scientists".

But maybe it's normal to have a large cavity under that ice. Or maybe it's normally just lower down and fills in that cavity. Why is it a problem that we've found a cavity?

Yeah, the UN General Assembly is all over that. Every shithole island country gets one vote in the GA. USA also gets one vote. So they're always concerned about their particular little islands.

Some new land was created by the volcano of the Big Island of Hawaii. Why don't they move there or to some other vacant land? The climate always changes, but who promised them that their fragile way of life will be totally undisturbed while we work 60 hour weeks and shiver in the winter to protect it?

2 feet??

That really depends how much of that ice is on land and how much is floating in the water.

Look if someone on Twitter told me the sky was blue I would have to go outside and look. Tow the damn thing to South Africa and/or Australia. They need the water quit whining. It's undersea volcanoes anyway.

If these tools(majority of commenters) actually believe the flavor of kool aid bs they're spouting off with, Them ding-dongs deserve what's coming.

Thwaites glacier is chump change though, compared to Greenland ice melt. Greenland is going NOW. Yes, it is THAT late.

If the climate intervention stopped, there would've already been no sea ice in the Arctic ocean for @ least a few weeks of last year, sometime between Aug-Oct.

Quite soon, these trolls, shills and ignorant morAns will be forced to awaken to their inevitable physical extinction. That should've ocurred by now, however, the populace as a whole is not @ all well-informed/aware of their surroundings(though they will claim to be)/deprogrammed.

They were fed a bunch of BS, and they ate it up!

We need to pray that it doens't happen

TOP STORYWednesday, February 6, 2019

A Huge Chasm has Opened Up Under Antarctica's Most Important--and Vulnerable--Glacier
An enormous cavity two-thirds the area of Manhattan and nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep has been discovered growing under West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Considered to be the world's most crucial glacier due to its sheer size and importance to the stability of the vast ice sheets that surround it, this vast cavern has been growing rapidly, with most of its volume having formed within the last three years, and its discovery underscores the vulnerability of Antarctica's massive ice sheets to a steadily warming planet.

This gap between Thwaites Glacier and the supporting bedrock underneath was first detected by NASA's Operation IceBridge survey in 2010, but the sheer magnitude of what that cavity would come to represent wasn't realized by researchers at the time. A more complete picture of the situation underneath the glacier has been constructed using data from more sophisticated satellites that have been brought online since then.

"We have suspected for years that Thwaites was not tightly attached to the bedrock beneath it," explains study co-author Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Thanks to a new generation of satellites, we can finally see the detail."

Roughly the size of Florida, meltwater from Thwaites Glacier currently contributes to about four percent of sea level rise, but it holds enough ice to raise ocean levels by a little over 2 feet (65 centimeters) if it were to melt entirely. Thwaites also supports a number of neighboring glaciers that would represent an additional 8 feet (2.4 meters) of sea level rise--glaciers that would be under an increased threat of collapse if Thwaites itself were to slide off into the ocean.

And when it comes to how glaciers melt, the maxim of 'as above, so below' proves to be no less true: "[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," warns the study's lead author, Pietro Milillo, also with JPL. "As more heat and water get under the glacier, it melts faster," and the cavern under the Thwaites Glacier is no exception. The cavern is large enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, a number that is all the more alarming considering that this volume of ice has melted from a single glacier over the span of only three years. It was also revealed last summer that Antarctica's ice sheets are melting three times faster than they were the decade before, with the Thwaites Glacier being among the two hardest-hit ice sheets on the continent.

Image Credit: Frozen icebergs near Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica seen during the Nov. 7, 2014, IceBridge mission. Credit: NASA / Jim Yungel
News Source: phys.org

Shhhh, don’t use facts in emotion based arguments. The SJW crowd will trigger.

Al Gore right?

Tasman Glacier: Huge ice chunks break off New Zealand glacier

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great youtube explaining , happened in the night

The Tsunami may indeed capsize Guam!