{"id":86313,"date":"2024-09-19T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/?p=86313"},"modified":"2024-09-20T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T15:27:22","slug":"grim-outlook-for-thwaites-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/19092024\/grim-outlook-for-thwaites-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Grim Outlook\u2019 for Thwaites Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u200b\u200bAfter six years of probing, poking and sampling a Florida-sized chunk of ice in West Antarctica with submarines, satellites and drills, scientists with the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration<\/a> said Thursday that a worst-case meltdown scenario still can\u2019t be ruled out, since emissions of climate-heating greenhouse gases continue to set new records each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combined with meltwater from ice in other parts of Antarctica and Greenland as well as from mountain glaciers around the world, and the thermal expansion of warming oceans, a Thwaites Glacier meltdown could spur sea level to rise six feet higher than today by 2100, the researchers said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many coastal communities would not be able to adapt to that much sea level rise in that time span, and it\u2019s likely that millions of people would be displaced, as extreme coastal flooding devastated low-lying cities, residential neighborhoods, croplands and natural ecosystems. That increase in water levels would swallow some small islands entirely in the span of just a few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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