--- Thwaites Glacier --- “We must dare to share the story of the Thwaites Glacier in all honesty, & with all the knowledge we currently have about it, with the most affected group, humanity & with nature as a whole.” - Kris van Steenbergen - ThreadSky

climatenews.bsky.social • 396 days ago

--- Thwaites Glacier ---

“We must dare to share the story of the Thwaites Glacier in all honesty, & with all the knowledge we currently have about it, with the most affected group, humanity & with nature as a whole.”

- Kris van Steenbergen

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pasgelly.bsky.social•30 days ago

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remi2024.bsky.social•31 days ago

Please ask Kris van Steenbergen (and Larry) to join Blue Sky? He is the only reason I keep a Twitter account, and I would like to delete Twitter.

climatenews.bsky.social•396 days ago

“The loss of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf will directly cause a sea level rise of 2 to 3 millimeters.

The loss of the glacier tongue behind it & the inland floating parts will cause an indirect sea level rise of 10 cm to 1 meter, due to sliding land ice.”

climatenews.bsky.social•396 days ago

“If the land ice & semi-floating ice above the Byrd Subglacial Basin start to break & shear, then we can speak of a self-reinforcing effect due to the sea level rise itself, or better due to the lifting & destabilization of all ice shelves, glaciers & high land ice.”

climatenews.bsky.social•396 days ago

“This would then mean that we are reaching the penultimate phase, which is comparable to the 20 to 25 meters we saw during the last climatological optima in the middle Pliocene & in the middle Miocene, when temperatures in the Arctic Ocean & Southern Ocean were similar to today.”

climatenews.bsky.social•396 days ago

“The final phase, which some think could not occur until after 2100, is that of an ice-free planet. Then we are talking about a SLR of 70-90 meters, due to the expansion of the oceans. I think this scenario is already baked into the climate system.”

climatenews.bsky.social•396 days ago

“Partly because of the speed at which we are warming the atmosphere, & partly because of the slowness with which we seem to want to undo our actions.

Our Thwaites Glacier will demonstrate this in 2024.

Whether we want it or not.”

- Kris van Steenbergen

m15-infobot2.bsky.social•396 days ago

Another hazard, (I hope, you can translate it. 😬) If the ice slide away, volcanos under the western Antarctica can be reactivate.

climatenews.bsky.social•396 days ago

The original thread on X/Twitter:

https://x.com/krvast/status/1750284949817532884?s=46&t=Bz4z8_jm0HR0e5EEkvUoYw

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