18″ Sea Level Rise by 2040 Baked in – Pine Island Glacier Breaking Up 10 X Faster Than Predicted
Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf is ripping apart, speeding up key Antarctic glacier UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON For decades, the ice shelf helping to hold back one of the fastest-moving glaciers in Antarctica has gradually thinned. Analysis of satellite images reveals a more dramatic process in recent years: From 2017 to 2020, large icebergs at the ice shelf’s edge broke off, and the glacier sped up. Since floating ice shelves help to hold back the larger grounded mass of the glacier,…
