um, sorry to disappoint you but the ice sheet has been gaining mass over the past decade. nasa quietly corrected the data last year after years of manipulation to suit the cc doom narrative.

Stop mining – lol – where will all this infrastructure come from? icebergs floating past?

We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?
It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty bad news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to us.

Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr Kaitlin Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we need to focus on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not hope, from this information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU

@mralekito
2 years ago (edited)
As your friend Jason Box says, “it hasn’t really sunk in, not even in the science community, that’s we’ve effectively lost the ice sheets. It’s only a matter of time before we see many meters of sea level rise and the world has to prepare for the catastrophe of the loss of coastlines and a retreat inland. Yet we’re acting like we can negotiate our way out of this”.

@alanj9978
2 years ago
Exactly. The last time earth was over 400 ppm, temperatures were 3 degrees higher and sea levels were 10-30 meters higher than today. Baseline expectations should be that we return to that state, even if we stopped emissions immediately.

@gregelliott1948
2 years ago (edited)
Sea level rise is the least of our worries when it comes to climate change (a symptom of human biological overshoot).

@lucemiserlohn
2 years ago
Our situation is so maddening. First of all, the vast majority of people, even those that should know better, still act like we can somehow avert this. Or negotiate our way out of this with nature. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Second, while everybody pretends that this can and will have a nice, neat and good outcome, nobody is preparing for the world we will be living in. Nobody thinks about ways to adapt to a new reality, how to accomodate millions of displaced people, how to feed ourselves when we lose lots of fertile land and lose yield on the remaining land due to the other effects of climate change. Nobody prepares for the wars that will result out of this catastrophe, because sadly, there will be wars, and they’ll make our World Wars look like child’s play in scale and atrocities. Nobody is making plans to move entire cities out of uninhabitable zones.

There is so much work to do if we as a species want to survive the coming centuries, especially the one we’re in. And yet we’re doing nothing at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plkkfEY9cGs&t=2s

@wrenyere9393
3 years ago
This is difficult to accept, but very necessary to see and accept. We need immediate action to respond to this inevitable catastrophe. There is nothing we can do to prevent it, but we should at least be mobilizing to move coastal communities away from danger! People’s lives are in imminent danger, but even getting the right people to acknowledge that, let alone do anything about it, seems impossible. There is so much more that should be happening right now to respond to this, but someone like me can’t make the money needed to undertake this appear out of thin air, and the people that do have the kind of money necessary would rather spend it on endless wars and lining their own coffers. Do they not realize that all the money in the world won’t matter when we have 3+ meters of sea level rise?