FATE OF "DOOMSDAY GLACIER" IS WARNING LIGHT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE... SAYS AUTHOR

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: 

Climate author Jeff Goodell says people should be paying close attention to the fate of a glacier in Antarctica, and what happens there should push policy change because of the potential impact on sea levels.

According to a group of scientists who study the Thwaites Glacier, a large glacier the size of Florida in Antarctica, its collapse could be sooner than anticipated, and that collapse could dramatically raise sea levels. We could see the floating portion of the glacier crumble into the ocean in the next 10 years scientists say.

The Thwaites Glacier sits in western Antarctica, and while other glaciers there sit above sea level on the Antarctic ice sheet, Thwaites has water underneath it, making it prone to warming water



Scientists say we still have a very, very narrow window of time to slow or stop this before it begins to happen," said Goodell.



"That's why cutting carbon emissions right now, today, tomorrow, this decade is so important."