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Ben See
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q. How do we stop Antarctica from melting or at least West Antarctica ice shelf? a. Reducing our carbon emissions is wishful thinking at this point. This part of West Antarctica is going to to fall apart no matter what. q. This is a holy shit moment? a. It's worse than that.🧵
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reminder: scientists have discovered weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier suggesting it could shatter within the next 2 to 4 years 🧵
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2. It would appear that multi-metre sea level rise will occur between the later stages of the second half of this century and the end of the 23rd century. Thread:
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ice climatologists: we've lost Earth's ice sheets and it's just a matter of time before we see many metres of sea level rise so society has to now brace itself for a catastrophe 🧵
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