Image courtesy of Chang W. Lee/New York Times/ Redux/eyevine
Joel Kontinen
The
floating ice shelf of world’s widest glacier – Thwaites glacier in Antarctica –
is detaching, with worrying implications for global sea-level rise.
Can global warming
spell doom for in Antarctica? Some say that the climate was established by God
at the end pf the global flood in Noah's time but others are more sceptical. They say that men can destroy
the planet.
Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier is set to break away.
“Its final
demise could happen suddenly, and to avoid being caught on the hop, we have
already prepared an ‘obituary’ press release,” says Rob Larter at
the British Antarctic Survey.
Dubbed the
“doomsday glacier”, Thwaites is about the size of Britain, but it is shrinking
rapidly and is already responsible for 4 per cent of all global sea-level rise. Worse still, its collapse is
expected to set off a domino effect in the entire West Antarctic ice sheet, ultimately
resulting in a calamitous sea-level rise of 3.3 metres and changing the
coastline of the entire planet.
Source:
Alison George 2026
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