| Title | Rapid Collapse of Antarctic Glaciers Could Flood Coastal Cities by the End of this Century | |
| Date | Monday November 27 2017, @07:00AM | |
| Author | mrpg | |
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| from the we-are-doomed dept. | ||
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.
[...] 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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