Posted by Graziella L. on December 19, 2021 at 3:35 p.m.
The Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest in Antarctica, is very close to collapse, say scientists monitoring it. Its subsidence can lead to a significant rise in water levels.
He was called “Doomsday Glacier” gletser Thwaites, in Antarctica, melting a little more every day due to global warming and human activities. It seems that the situation is getting worse, because of him threatening to collapse and alarming the scientific community. Indeed, the consequences would be dramatic, which would be significant increase in water.
It is 120 km wide, 600 km long and 3 km deep, about the size of Great Britain. This is real mastodon, but today only thanks to the ice bank that represents a third of the total. This floating part is today weaken, because the lag is detected using satellite and GPS data. That glacier worry about”the intersection of hidden cracks and cracks“which will lead to him final collapse. If this happens, the melting and release of glaciers can be accelerated.
Catherine Ritz, a glaciologist at the Institute of Environmental Sciences, said that “this glacier is really West Antarctica’s Achilles heel“, from the magazine science. That the melting of this impressive glacier already responsible for the current sea level rise and the latter could greatly increase to achieve 65 centimeters in a few centuries. In addition, this glacier harbors another block of ice, so its collapse would cause many other things, and sea level rise would then be several meters.
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