Doomsday glacier' is melting: Critical threshold could be crossed in ten years
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Due to the effects of the climate crisis, it has been announced that the melting of the giant Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica is accelerating with each passing day. It has been stated that the glacier, which has lost more than 1 trillion tons of ice since 2000 and has melted twice as fast in the last 30 years, will raise the global sea level by 65 centimeters if it melts completely. Erin Pettit, a glaciologist at Oregon State University, said that cracks were detected on the surface of the eastern ice shelf of the giant glacier and could collapse within ten years, while scientists underlined that this is the beginning of the end.
It has been announced that the melting rate of glaciers in Antarctica is increasing day by day, with global warming increasing average temperatures.
It was stated that due to the effects of the climate crisis, the melting of the giant Thwaites Glacier, especially in West Antarctica, has accelerated and has started to melt twice as fast in the last 30 years.
It was stated that the complete melting of the 'Doomsday Glacier', which has been reported to have lost more than 1 trillion tons of ice since 2000, will raise the global sea level by 65 centimeters.
CITIES LIKE NEW YORK, SHANGHAI AND TOKYO CAN BE SURFACED
While recent studies by scientists show that the glacier's long-term stability is questionable as it melts more and more, it was underlined that the melting of the glacier will flood many major cities of the world, including Shanghai, New York, Miami, Tokyo and Mumbai.
It has been reported that glacier melt, which is predicted to flood cities, will largely swallow low-lying island countries such as Kiribati, Tuvalu and Maldives, which are low above sea level.
LARGE AS THE ISLAND OF BRITAIN
The Thwaites Glacier is a frozen ice river roughly the size of Great Britain and currently contributes to around 4 percent of global sea level rise.
Since 2000, the glacier has lost more than 1 trillion tons of net ice, while the rate of melting has steadily increased over the past three decades, doubling.
130-KILOMETERS WIDE glacier IS HOLDED BY THE PLATFORM
This means that the glacier has released twice as much water into the oceans as it did in the 1990s.
The world's largest glacier at 130 kilometers wide, Thwaites Glacier is held by a floating ice platform called an ice shelf, which holds the glacier and makes it flow less quickly.
'Could collapse in ten years'
Erin Pettit, a glaciologist at Oregon State University, said there are cracks crisscrossing the surface of the eastern ice shelf, which could collapse within a decade.
Saying that the collapse of Thwaites' ice shelf will be the beginning of the end for the glacier, scientists stated that the disappearance of the ice shelf will empty all its ice into the oceans after ten years.
Oregon State University ice scientist Erin Pettit stated that Thwaites melted in three ways. "The ice shelf of India is breaking, creating hundreds of cracks like a damaged windshield. This is the most dangerous because of the 10-kilometer-long cracks that will form in just one year," he said.
US AND UK ALLOCATE $50 MILLION FOR REVIEW
Thirty-two scientists will today embark on a more than two-month mission aboard an American research vessel to survey the critical area of the massive melting Thwaites Glacier overlooking the Amundsen Sea.
The United States and Britain undertook a joint $50 million mission to study the rapidly melting Thwaites, the world's largest glacier.
Thwaites is also called the "doomsday glacier" because of the amount of ice it has and the potential threat it poses if it melts. nonstop news
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