#thwaites — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thwaites, aggregated by home.social.
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Neue #Forschung zeigt, dass warmes Meerwasser den starken Rückgang des westantarktischen Eisschildes seit der letzten #Eiszeit ausgelöst hat. Die Studie rekonstruiert Meerestemperaturen bis zu 18.000 Jahre zurück und warnt, dass sich auch heute warmes Tiefenwasser unter das #Eis schiebt. Das bedroht die Stabilität des #Thwaites-Gletschers. #Antarktis
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Umgekippte Eisberge am #Thwaites-Gletscher in der #Antarktis lösen hunderte „Gletscherbeben“ aus. Mit regionalen seismischen Daten wurden bislang 362 Ereignisse seit 2010 erfasst. Diese Erdbeben zeigen, wie Eis vom Kontinent ins Meer gelangt und helfen, das Verhalten der Gletscher und den #Meeresspiegelanstieg besser zu verstehen.
Zur Studie: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118885 -
The #DoomsdayGlacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse
An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the #ThwaitesGlacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.
by Ritsuko Kawai, Dec 22, 2025 9:43 AM
Excerpt: "Known as the '#Doomsday Glacier,' the Thwaites Glacier in #Antarctica is one of the most rapidly changing glaciers on Earth, and its future evolution is one of the biggest unknowns when it comes to predicting global sea level rise.
"The eastern ice shelf of the Thwaites Glacier is supported at its northern end by a ridge of the ocean floor. However, over the past two decades, cracks in the upper reaches of the glacier have increased rapidly, weakening its structural stability. A new study by the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) presents a detailed record of this gradual collapse process.
"Researchers at the Centre for Earth Observation and Science at the University of Manitoba, Canada, analyzed observational data from 2002 to 2022 to track the formation and propagation of cracks in the ice shelf shear zone. They discovered that as the cracks grew, the connection between the ice shelf and the mid-ocean ridge weakened, accelerating the upstream flow of ice."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fNNm0#DoomsdayGlacier #GlobalWarming #SeaLevelRise #Oiligarchy #ClimateChangeIsRead #ClimateScience #Thwaites #GlobalSeaLevelRise
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Savory pies warm customers up as winter rolls in
NH Chronicle: Savory pies warm customers up as winter rolls i…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2387103/savory-pies-warm-customers-up-as-winter-rolls-in/ -
Savory pies warm customers up as winter rolls in https://www.diningandcooking.com/2387103/savory-pies-warm-customers-up-as-winter-rolls-in/ #AudreyCox #BigHelping #Cooking #CookingTopics #FatHenBrewing #FatHenBrewingCompanyexeter #keene #MillHollowSchool #NewHampshireChronicle #NHChronicle #PieWeek #PotPie #PotPieBar #PotPies #PubPie #restaurant #Savory #story #Thwaites #tonight #WarmCustomer #WinterRoll
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#FYI #ClimateChat #DanMiller #LeonSimons #Antarctic #Thwaites #DoomsdayGlacier
Coming up! 👇👇👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iarx9Pibnic
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #methane #GreenhouseGases #KeepitInTheGround
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Der #Thwaites Gletscher in der #Antarktis zählt zu den größten weltweit und verliert jährlich rund 50 Milliarden Tonnen Eis.
Die Ursache ist wärmeres #Meerwasser, das das Eis von unten schmilzt und verstärkte #Kalbungen auslöst. Der Gletscher trägt aktuell etwa 4 Prozent zum globalen #Meeresspiegelanstieg bei.
Ein vollständiger Kollaps könnte den Meeresspiegel um bis zu 65 Zentimeter steigen lassen.
https://www.copernicus.eu/en/media/image-day-gallery/thwaites-glacier-antarctica
#Klimawandel #Gletscher #Satellitenbilder #Science #Erderwrämung
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#Thwaites Eastern #IceShelf nearing collapse as cracks spread, not because of melting
These findings and further computer modeling suggest that, while warm #ocean waters are preconditioning ice loss in West #Antarctica, the ongoing internal destabilisation now poses the greatest threat to the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf. The ice shelf is in its final phase of disintegration as these cracks grow, independent of melting from below.
https://thwaitesglacier.org/news/thwaites-eastern-ice-shelf-cracks-spread-not-because-melting #climatechange #climtecrisis -
Micro-Climate Blog #16! which speaks to traditions of Halloween-time that recognize thinning of the separation between worlds. And so it also seems fitting to share recent research on thinning of glaciers in west Antarctica, which brings enough scary to be getting on with-
https://sha.org/ghosts-and-glaciers/2024/10/
#ClimateHeritage
#Glaciers
#Thwaites
#Halloween
#ScaryMicro-Climate is a new twice-weekly blog series from the Society for Historical Archaeology and written by me that shares short considerations from an archaeologist about a current piece of climate news.
All Micro-Climate blog posts are here: https://sha.org/climate-heritage-initiative/
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Thwaites Glacier won’t collapse like dominoes as feared, study finds, but that doesn’t mean the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is stable
https://theconversation.com/thwaites-glacier-wont-collapse-like-dominoes-as-feared-study-finds-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-doomsday-glacier-is-stable-236480 via @TheConversationClimate#Antarctica #Ice #SeaLevel #Thwaites #DoomsdayGlacier #AntarcticIceSheet #WAIS 🇦🇶🧊🌊
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The essential update from Hilmar Guðmundsson on #Thwaites, #PineIsland and other glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector. This is work related to #Tippaccs + @OceanIceEU TL;DR MICI probably isn't a thing, the Thwaites ice shelf is irrelevant to the glacier but grounding lines are probably going to be important...
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Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘#DoomsdayGlacier’ with potentially dire impacts on #SeaLevelRise
By Laura Paddison, CNN
Published May 22, 2024"The #ThwaitesGlacier in #WestAntarctica — nicknamed the 'Doomsday Glacier' because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level rise — is the world’s widest glacier and roughly the size of Florida. It’s also #Antarctica’s most vulnerable and unstable glacier, in large part because the land on which it sits slopes downward, allowing ocean waters to eat away at its ice.
"#Thwaites, which already contributes 4% to global #Sea Level rise, holds enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 2 feet. But because it also acts as a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, scientists have estimated its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet of sea level rise — a catastrophe for the world’s #coastal communities."
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Un audace progetto da 50 miliardi di dollari punta a salvare il ghiacciaio Thwaites, dal collasso. Il piano, che suona disperato, è di circondarlo con speciali "tende" lunghe 100 km per deviare l'acqua calda e rallentarne lo scioglimento. Sembra assurdo, ma il confronto con i possibili danni è impietoso.
#Ghiacciaio #Apocalisse #RiscaldamentoGlobale #Thwaites #ambiente
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#Thwaites and #PineIsland #Glaciers Rapid Melting Could Cause Four Foot Global Sea Level Rise
March 4, 2020
"Over the weekend of February 8-9, 2020, a significant calving event was observed by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel satellites on Thwaites’ neighbor #PineIslandGlacier. A 120-mile ice chunk—approximately the size of three San Franciscos—broke off the glacier’s front and splintered into several smaller icebergs, one of which was huge enough to receive its own name, B-49. Pine Island Glacier’s unstable state is evidenced by the diminishing time between calving events; prior events this century happened in 2001, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Between Thwaites and Pine Island, the amount of ice lost from Antarctica’s ice shelves is rapid and indicates a serious future threat. Both are susceptible to the encroachment of warm sea level because the “grounding line,” where the glaciers meet bedrock, lies below sea level. These two glaciers form the gateway to a large supply of frozen water on land that if released into the sea would cause global sea levels to rise by an estimated four feet. Although Pine Island Glacier appears to have stabilized for now, the threat of an increasingly unstable ice shelf yielding larger and larger icebergs (marine cliff instability) may cause dangerously fast losses of ice in West Antarctica."
#SeaLevel #SeaLevelRise #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GlobalWarming
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Le #glacier de l’ #apocalypse se #fissure
Le glacier #Thwaites, surnommé le glacier de l'apocalypse, est particulièrement surveillé depuis des années. Un gros glacier à l'ouest de l'Antarctique situé dans la Terre Marie Byrd. Des spécialistes ont signalé une nouvelle fissure importante détectée récemment.
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RT @DawnRoseTurner
One of #Antarctica's fastest-shrinking #glaciers just lost an iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C.Scientists worry that #PineIsland and the neighboring #Thwaites 'Doomsday' Glacier could be headed toward collapse. | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/pine-island-glacier-calving-retreat.html