NEW STUDY: "#Ocean water is pushing miles beneath #Antarctica’s “#DoomsdayGlacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research which used radar data from space to perform an X-ray of the crucial glacier."
"...scientists have estimated 👉its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet [3 meters]of sea level rise👈 — a...
...catastrophe for the world’s coastal communities."
"....we have solid observations of what is going on.”
"In a separate study, also published Monday, researchers from the #BritishAntarcticSurvey looked at the reasons for the record low levels of sea ice surrounding Antarctica last year...used #ClimateModels to predict the potential speed of recovery from such extreme sea ice loss and found that 👉even after two decades,...
Examining satellite images, researchers from the #BritishAntarcticSurvey found that the then record drop in #SeaIce in late 2022 could have killed thousands of #EmperorPenguin chicks. The usually stable sea ice that colonies rely on to rear their young in the #BellingshausenSea just wasn’t there, likely causing a “catastrophic breeding failure”. #ClimateCrisis
'Lead author Dr Kaitlin Naughten, a researcher at the British Antarctic Survey says:
“It looks like we’ve lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. If we wanted to preserve it in its historical state, we would have needed action on climate change decades ago."'