Seawater intrusion below glaciers may be reaching a tipping point (or have even passed it) suggesting we could be about to see a significant sea level rise.
Aha, say the sceptics, this is 'may' and 'could'... we want the facts.
The problem is that approach to the climate is what has got us where we are... climate scientists have been warning us for years, and their estimates/fears have been largely borne out, the sceptics claims, not so much!
Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise
Small increase in temperature of intruding water could lead to very big increase in loss of ice, scientists sayDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •The melting methane trapped under sea glaciers & tundra permafrost is also underestimated. That thawing is accelerating global warming.
Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.
https://www.wired.com/story/arctic-permafrost-obsessed-methane-detectives/
https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/frozen-ground-permafrost/why-frozen-ground-matters
https://earth.org/data_visualization/what-is-permafrost/
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/climate-change-is-thawing-frozen-methane-in-the-ocean-floor-381772
Climate Change is Thawing Frozen Methane in the Ocean Floor
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That's the issue with any rapid change.
Singularities often produce unknowable consequences until its too late.
Zoonotic pandemics are just one example of an unexamined consequence of fossil fuel global warming.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/climate-crisis-future-pandemics-zoonotic-spillover
https://www.cfr.org/article/perilous-pathogens-how-climate-change-increasing-threat-diseases
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Singularity_(systems_theory)&diffonly=true
Example:
The industrial revolution destroyed village life in Europe. Artisanal skills vanished. Cheesemaking. Horse husbandry. Mass species loss. Social cohesion.
‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
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