The race to understand how and when Thwaites glacier will collapse | New Scientist
...Since 2000, the glacier has lost more than a trillion tonnes of ice, and this rate of loss has doubled in the past 30 years. The big worry is that, if it collapsed entirely, it could ultimately trigger a wider collapse of the ice of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, causing a calamitous sea-level rise of more than 3 metres, on average, changing the coastline of the entire planet...…
http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2026/06/30/the-race-to-understand-how-and-when-thwaites-glacier-will-collapse-new-scientist/
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