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Are you telling me I can look up projected ~11 feet sea rise coastal line, buy up cheap land, blow up the glacier and profit?


Perhaps briefly. Sea level rise is currently neatly tracking the IPCC's most pessimistic models. I don't think any of them model catastrophic events like glacier collapse.

If we lose Thwaites, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet's days are probably numbered, and you better factor in the Greenland Ice Sheet too. East Antarctic is losing mass now, at unprecedented rate. All seem to be accelerating, even formerly too cold East Antarctic.

Place your bets please. 3m or 20m rise? No more ice? I don't think anyone knows or is willing to guess when or where equilibrium lies. How soon? As the article hints, 10 years, 1,000 years, no one knows that either. Yet.


Unless Superman shows up to turn back time, yes.




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