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Antarctica’s ‘doomsday glacier’ reveals alarming new trait to scientists
Scientists have detected unusually warm water underneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier."
The team from Georgia Tech was able capture new images and first-of-its-kind data from deep beneath Thwaites Glacier -- which earned its "doomsday" nickname because it is one of Antarctica's fastest melting glaciers.
The waters at the ground line, where the glacier meets the sea, are more than 2 degrees above the normal freezing temperature, according to scientists.
"Warm waters in this part of the world, as remote as they may seem, should serve as a warning to all of us about the potential dire changes to the planet brought about by climate change," David Holland, director of New York University's Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Global Sea Level Change, which conducted the research, said in a statement. "If these waters are causing glacier melt in Antarctica, resulting changes in sea level would be felt in more inhabited parts of the world."
https://www.foxnews.com/science/antarctica-doomsday-glacier-alarming-new-trait.amp
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So you guys know that I am pretty skeptical of official narratives, and am conspiracy inclined right?
I used to be a climate skeptic.
I am not anymore, and stories like this are why.
I have issues with the narrative the media presents on climate change, but I don't think it is reasonable to say it isn't happening, nor that it isn't happening at an alarming rate.
Don't believe me. Believe Fox news.
Discuss.........
Scientists have detected unusually warm water underneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier."
The team from Georgia Tech was able capture new images and first-of-its-kind data from deep beneath Thwaites Glacier -- which earned its "doomsday" nickname because it is one of Antarctica's fastest melting glaciers.
The waters at the ground line, where the glacier meets the sea, are more than 2 degrees above the normal freezing temperature, according to scientists.
"Warm waters in this part of the world, as remote as they may seem, should serve as a warning to all of us about the potential dire changes to the planet brought about by climate change," David Holland, director of New York University's Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Global Sea Level Change, which conducted the research, said in a statement. "If these waters are causing glacier melt in Antarctica, resulting changes in sea level would be felt in more inhabited parts of the world."
https://www.foxnews.com/science/antarctica-doomsday-glacier-alarming-new-trait.amp
_____________________________________
So you guys know that I am pretty skeptical of official narratives, and am conspiracy inclined right?
I used to be a climate skeptic.
I am not anymore, and stories like this are why.
I have issues with the narrative the media presents on climate change, but I don't think it is reasonable to say it isn't happening, nor that it isn't happening at an alarming rate.
Don't believe me. Believe Fox news.
Discuss.........
