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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is some scary shit -- Trouble at Trotten Glacier
Wed Apr 15, 2015 at 02:35 AM PDT
Trouble at Totten Glacier
by greenman3610
The latest This is Not Cool video is the third in a trilogy of very important, and sobering, pieces Ive posted over the last year. I didnt start with a trilogy in mind, but the developments of the last few months have been jarring and momentous.
Chris Mooney wrote recently in the Washington Post, A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise..
He added, Meanwhile, 2015 could be the year of the double whammy when we learned the same about one gigantic glacier of East Antarctica, which could set in motion roughly the same amount all over again.
The decades-long unfolding of this story that vast areas of ice once thought to be invulnerable on time scales meaningful to humans, may in fact already be in the process of disintegration is one that that the vast majority of humanity still does not understand, and that the media has been unwilling to track. Its a realization that, one top expert told us, even seasoned ice sheet veterans find shattering.
For this video I used in-person interviews from Decembers AGU conference, as well as a skype chat with Jamin Greenbaum of the University of Texas, whose recent research on East Antarctic vulnerability has been widely reported. Jamin pointed me to some Australian research from the same area. There was a huge volume of material, not all of which made it into this video, but which Ill be posting in coming weeks to flesh out the picture.
The overriding message: we have a problem.
http://climatecrocks.com/2015/04/14/new-video-the-trouble-at-totten-glacier/
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This is some scary shit -- Trouble at Trotten Glacier (Original Post)
FourScore
Apr 2015
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FourScore
(9,704 posts)1. dropped like a stone. n/t
hatrack
(59,596 posts)3. Know the feeling . . . .
I've been posting in E&E for a decade+, tens of thousands of posts, and that's usually what happens.
Welcome to the Cassandra Carriage.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)2. Thanks for posting
Gee I'm glad I'm old. I feel so sorry for young folks who'll never see the things we have seen that are lost to the sea. The mountains will remain, but will there be room for survivors of the coasts, and food supply...
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)4. K&R nt.