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Mar 27 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
ICYMI we are witnessing, via satellite imagery, sudden collapse of key glacial fronts of @antarctica . This...
And here, we see Eastern @antarctica glacial collapse
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
And further @antarctica glacial system calving and sudden melt zmescience.com/ecology/climat…
And...nytimes.com/2022/03/25/cli…
"Researchers are scrambling to make sense of what has happened. The surprising temperatures & moisture are already changing how they think about weather in #Antarctica and raising questions about what impacts the continent could see..."
nbcnews.com/science/scienc…
Scientist Zeke Hausfather: "what's happening in #Antarctica is, to be honest, mind boggling for us...it's 70 degrees F hotter than it should be for this time of year in parts of eastern A, which is really unprecedented."
#ClimateCrisis
loe.org/shows/segments…
Kim Stanley Robinson: "New projections released by @NOAA put minimum sea-level rise at 12" within the next 28 yrs. That number doubles, at least, by the end of this century...enough to submerge almost every beach in the world. Kiss them goodbye."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"Things are speeding up more than seemed possible. The ice shelf floating off the #Thwaites Glacier in #Antarctica looks like it might break up in the next 5 yrs...giant glacier’s ice will slide into the sea unimpeded...The loss of Thwaites alone wld raise sea level by 2 ft"

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