Relatively warm ocean currents are weakening the base of Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier, whose demise could raise sea levels by as much as 7 feet. To separate the ice from those warmer ocean waters, scientists have put forward an audacious plan to erect a massive underwater curtain.
Delay it, maybe, but for how long and will it matter? 🤔
Until humans start seeing the effects first hand we won’t do much. Let it melt, maybe then we’ll start taking climate change seriously.