bs2> “#zombie” is a good term.
.. the #Greenland ice sheet is trying to recover from damage.. already done. So we’re not.. talking about future #ClimateChange. This foot of sea level rise is.. already caused.. to kind of correct this damage, the ice sheet is trying to shrink and readjust its position.. leaving ice along the margins of the ice sheet.. disconnected. It’s dead ice.. committed to the oceans. And that’s why we’re calling it “#ZombieIce.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/1/david_bahr_greenland_melting_ice_sheet
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.. the #Greenland ice sheet is trying to recover from damage.. already done. So we’re not.. talking about future #ClimateChange. This foot of sea level rise is.. already caused.. to kind of correct this damage, the ice sheet is trying to shrink and readjust its position.. leaving ice along the margins of the ice sheet.. disconnected. It’s dead ice.. committed to the oceans. And that’s why we’re calling it “#ZombieIce.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/1/david_bahr_greenland_melting_ice_sheet
#LivingThings
“Zombie Ice”: Greenland’s Melting Glacier to Raise Sea Levels Nearly 1 Foot, Double Previous Estimate
We speak with glaciologist David Bahr, who co-authored a shocking new study this week revealing Greenland’s melting ice sheet will likely contribute almost a foot to global sea level rise by the end of the century. The report, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, finds that even if the world were to halt all greenhouse gas emissions today, 120 trillion tons of Greenland’s “zombie ice” are doomed to melt. Bahr says if global emissions continue to rise, global sea level rise just from Greenland glacial melt could reach two-and-a-half feet. “The faster we can get to net zero, the better we will all be,” he says.