Changing gears, there is a giant Antartica glacier that is 120,000 square miles, which is the size of New Mexico, and scientists have discovered that it is melting much faster than they thought. If this glacier breaks up into the ocean then we will see an immediate 1.5-3 foot rise in sea level and possibly worse.
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All this has very serious consequences for those living along the coast. Thwaites Glacier’s collapse would raise sea levels by 1.5 to 3 feet (0.5 to 0.9 meters), and could also trigger an even worse chain of events because it could initiate the collapse of another nearby imperiled ice shelf, the Pine Island Glacier. Together, these shelves act as a braking mechanism on land ice that, if released into the open waters, could push seas up to 10 feet (3.1 meters), overwhelming coastal cities around the world.
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