A team of researchers reports Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier is on the verge of collapse, with warm water seeping under the weakest parts of the glacier and melting it from below. Researchers deployed a robotic submarine to penetrate the vast ice sheet, which is roughly the size of Florida. They found the glacier is susceptible to rapid and irreversible ice loss that could raise global sea levels by more than half a meter. Its collapse could destabilize surrounding glaciers that could raise the Earth’s oceans by a further three meters — or nearly 10 feet.
I fear that while most nations would absolutely take action if meters of coast vanished overnight, the US has so devolved its ability to do anything to parasitic private interests that it would be unable to take any climate action besides tax incentives to build solar. If Florida sank beneath the waves, the libs would be celebrating the loss of a red state, the chuds would be shooting up synagogues in vengeance, and the government would try to find contractors to repaint road signage to avoid Florida