{"id":1172452,"date":"2021-12-30T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172452"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:49:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:49:18","slug":"climate-alarmists-doomsday-glacier-is-coming-for-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-alarmists-doomsday-glacier-is-coming-for-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Alarmists: \u2018Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-alarmists-doomsday-glacier-is-coming-for-us-all%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172452&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica could \u201cfall apart overnight\u201d and raise sea levels by 10 feet, declares an article Thursday in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/doomsday-glacier-thwaites-antarctica-climate-crisis-1273841\/\">essay<\/a> by Jeff Goodell, titled \u201c\u2018The Fuse Has Been Blown,\u2019 and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All,\u201d states that cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf suggest the Florida-sized ice mass \u201ccould fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The West Antarctic ice sheet \u201cis one of the most important tipping points in the Earth\u2019s climate system,\u201d Goodell asserts. \u201cIf Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is going to be a climate catastrophe, it\u2019s probably going to start at Thwaites,\u201d Goodell writes, citing Ohio State glaciologist Ian Howat.<\/p>\n<p>What this \u201cworld-bending catastrophe\u201d would mean in terms of death and damage, Goodell insists, is the disappearance of Miami and \u201cvirtually every low-lying coastal city in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19308202\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236997778.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19308202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236997778-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chilean and U.S. scientists looking at a solar eclipse from the Union Glacier in Antarctica on December 4, 2021. (FELIPE TRUEBA\/Imagen Chile\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Moreover, the disaster would not be gradual but sudden, he suggests, because a runaway collapse of the ice sheet \u201ccould raise global sea levels very high, very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Goodell urges concerted climate action, he is not optimistic about the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if we cut carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, warm water will continue to flow beneath the ice sheet for decades, destabilizing the ice and further pushing the glacier toward eventual collapse,\u201d he declares.<\/p>\n<p>Goodell is not alone in sounding the alarm over the threat of the \u201cdoomsday glacier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, ABC News in Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/thwaites-glacier-doomsday-climate-change-global-warming\/11403726\/\">asserted<\/a> that the ice sheets around Thwaites Glacier are fracturing and could \u201cshatter within the next three to five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA breakage of that magnitude would pose the biggest threat for sea-level rise in the 21st century and would put coastal communities and low-lying nations at risk,\u201d ABC said, citing \u201cresearchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica could \u201cfall apart overnight\u201d and raise sea levels by 10 feet, declares an article Thursday in Rolling Stone magazine. 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