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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 TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

Well that sucks.

[–] SGG 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is probably the only way rich people will care about climate change.

Heat waves killing people? I sleep.

My multi million Holiday beach home I use for 2 days a year is at risk? Real shit.

[–] CitizenKong 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They'll just whine to the politicians they pay until they get a handout of taxpayer money.

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

I asked ChatGPT and it estimates that a 10 feet rise would make us loose about 3.4% of the global landmass or about 5 million square kilometers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not to mention sea level rise’s unpredictable effect on inland rivers. River avulsion can be both directly catastrophic and cause long-term drought and other problems in cities and communities that rely on their rivers being… where they are. Shit’s gonna fuck everyone up.