The Doomsday Glacier, Part I: Thwaites and global ocean circulation.
The ice shelf that holds back the Thwaites "Doomsday Glacier" will disintegrate before New Years. We'll explain why this could mean a huge sea level emergency--and things far worse.
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New Research: Ocean Current Collapse More Likely, and Sooner, Than We Thought.
For those of you who are Newbies for us, here is out white paper on how the ocean currents work and what has happened before when they shut down. It’s in the public domain, so feel free to pass it around, use it in the classroom (if you’re not arrested for it!), and to keep as a reference.
When we wrote the article above most of a year ago, research showed the ocean circulation around Antarctica to be slowing. As it slows the “chimneys” — great circular gyres that spin the seas—show signs of shutting down. This, the AMOC, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, is now coming under serious threat.
