Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research because the world is getting a lot wetter.
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In these two #collapse #vectors, there is over 30 foot rise in sea level over the next century. 30 ft. 100 years is just one lifetime. Move your house. The speed of change will be deadly.
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)
The WAIS is vulnerable to marine ice sheet instability, where warm deep-ocean currents erode the grounding lines of major glaciers like Thwaites and Pine Island.
Collapse Likelihood: High; threshold for long-term commitment potentially already crossed at 1.2{C}.
Trigger: Sustained ocean warming melting ice shelves from below, leading to runaway calving.
Impact Mechanism: Committed global sea-level rise of 3.3 meters over several centuries.
5. Greenland Ice Sheet
The Greenland ice sheet is undergoing accelerated surface melt. ...
... As the ice sheet thins, its surface drops into warmer, lower-altitude air, creating a self-reinforcing melt loop.
Collapse Likelihood: Virtually certain to tip if global temperatures stay above 1.5^\circ\text{C} for more than 100 years.
Trigger: Annual surface mass balance becoming permanently negative.
Impact Mechanism: Global sea-level rise of up to 7 meters.