What Will Happen if the Thwaites Glacier Melts?

Planet Zero - Climate Change
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26.9 هزار بار بازدید - پارسال - The Thwaites Glacier, aptly named
The Thwaites Glacier, aptly named the Doomsday Glacier, has been raising concern among climate scientists as research reveals that it has begun to melt at an accelerating rate. As man-made climate change warms the oceans and melts ice faster, there is a risk of this massive glacier crossing its tipping point, and entering a period of unstoppable melting. But how close are we to crossing this tipping point? Have we already crossed it?

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0:00 Intro
0:46 What is the WAIS
1:57 Thwaites' Grounding Line
2:58 Where is the Tipping Point?
4:18 Outro
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References:

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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar....

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https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer...

[4]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

[6]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...

[7]
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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