Among the world’s largest and swiftest-moving glaciers is the Thwaites Glacier. It contributes, along with the larger Amundsen Sea Embayment, 8% of the current rate of sea level rise worldwide, or 4.6 mm annually.
As of right present, experts from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) predict that the glacier’s ice loss will quicken over the 22nd century and may cause the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse widely in the 23rd.
Sea levels would rise by 3.3 meters, or over ten feet, if the glacier melted completely, according to geologists.
Large portions of downtown London, including Westminster, Battersea, and Canary Wharf, would be under water, according to modeling from Climate downtown, an independent group of scientists.
According to marine geophysicist Dr. Rob Larter of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), “Thwaites has been retreating for more than 80 years, accelerating considerably over the past 30 years, and our findings indicate it is set to retreat further and faster.”
The expert, who is also the ITGC’s Science Coordination Coordinator, continued, saying that everyone agrees that the Thwaites Glacier retreat will quicken over the course of the next century.
