A drone flying over the melting glacier.
NASA and other authorities are working on calculating how much time the West Antarctic ice sheet has before collapsing.
This piece of ice, larger than the country of Mexico, is in risk of melting from the powerful global warming problem all us humans have to worry about. Much is said to happen within the next hundreds of years with more water melting and more showing up on human populated shores.
“chances of surviving another 400
years in anything like its present form would appear to be remote." New York Times said. "Miami, New
Orleans, London, Venice, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia, are all
just as vulnerable as New York, or more so.”
By 2500 the water is said to have risen more than 49 feet. This problem might not affect much of our lives today, but it is a problem that will be left for children born today.
"The findings from Joughin and his colleagues, appearing in the journal Science, indicate that in some places, Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is losing tens of feet, or several meters, of ice elevation every year," NBC News said.
It has not been easy configuring the timeline for when and how this will happen. “These processes were
measured against sea-level estimates from the Pliocene and Last Interglacial
periods," FOX news said." and applied to future greenhouse gas emission scenarios.”
The cause of most of the melting of ice is the glaciers that are constantly increasing with flow and constantly growing deeper and wider. They are the cause of underground canals and a receding coastline, which is only making the process be more apparent.
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