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Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century

posted by mrpg on Monday November 27 2017, @07:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-are-doomed dept.

Whoever writes:

We may be headed for an ice apocalypse which could result in the flooding of coastal cities before the end of this century. Glaciers in Antarctica may break and release ice, exposing taller cliffs, resulting in faster melting.

"In the past few years, scientists have identified marine ice-cliff instability as a feedback loop that could kickstart the disintegration of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet this century — much more quickly than previously thought."

[...] A wholesale collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites would set off a catastrophe. Giant icebergs would stream away from Antarctica like a parade of frozen soldiers. All over the world, high tides would creep higher, slowly burying every shoreline on the planet, flooding coastal cities and creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday November 27 2017, @07:40AM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday November 27 2017, @07:40AM (#601982) Journal

    So buy your grandkids a U-Haul gift certificate...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @11:20AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @11:20AM (#602022)

    Don't worry - government will save us all!

    Your unborn grandkids are already so indebted via tax burden that they won't be able to afford gas for that U-Haul.

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 27 2017, @11:39AM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday November 27 2017, @11:39AM (#602029) Journal

      Your unborn grandkids are already so indebted via tax burden that they won't be able to afford gas for that U-Haul.

      It's more likely that they will be snorting pixie dust in a driverless electric U-Haul.

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