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Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise (www.cnn.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Wilshire to c/science

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 11 points 7 months ago

Well that is not ideal