🚨🇦🇶 ANTARCTICA’S LAST WARNING: THE ICE IS ABOUT TO SNAP
East Antarctica - the quiet giant that holds half the planet’s fresh water - may be losing its grip. Again.
New research says it’s replaying a 9,000-year-old catastrophe, when warm ocean water crept under the ice, sliced off 30% of its edge, and pulled the rest down with it.
Now, deep currents are doing the same thing beneath Thwaites and Pine Island - glaciers so unstable scientists call one the “Doomsday Glacier.”
Once the melt starts, the planet doesn’t just warm - it amplifies.
Freshwater from one region traps more heat below, accelerates melting elsewhere, and the whole continent begins to unravel.
That’s the nightmare loop: cascading positive feedback - the scientific term for “you can’t stop this.”
Ten feet of sea-level rise. Gone: Miami, Shanghai, Lagos, New York. Hundreds of millions displaced.
The ice doesn’t care about your emissions targets or election cycles. It moves on geological time - until it doesn’t.
Source: Science Daily
🇦🇶 ANTARCTICA MAY HAVE PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice hasn’t just declined - it’s collapsed.
After decades of stability, scientists now believe the continent has crossed a climate tipping point.
New data show the odds of 2023’s record low ice levels happening by chance were less than 0.1%. The trigger: warm, deep ocean water rising to the surface - heat humanity buried now coming back up.
The ice loss is accelerating, continent-wide, and likely irreversible.
Without that sea ice, glaciers will slide faster into the ocean.
Sea levels will rise.
The planet will warm even more.
Antarctica’s silence has always been its warning.
This time, it’s screaming.
Source: New Scientist