Thwaites Glacier Tongue Goes When Iceberg B45 Goes, Which Probably Won't Be Much Longer Now [View all]

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Kris Van Steenbergen provides critical information on the seventy-mile-wide glacier front of the Thwaites Glacier.

As you know, Iceberg B22A recently floated off the sea mountain it was attached to and now flows in the highly vulnerable Amundsen Sea Embayment on its way to the open ocean. The iceberg still provides some minimal blocking of southern ocean storm waves to the glacier front. Kris notes that once B22A enters the open ocean, warm water and powerful waves will likely remove the smaller iceberg B45 ( pinning point 9) from its sea mount and likely cause the collapse of the remaining ice tongue. A domino effect of the remaining pinning points is threatening reality.

The tweet below includes the entire conversation on the remaining pinning points and their threat to the stability of the Amundsen Sea Embayment. I have replicated Van Steenbergen’s tweets. Many Thwaites experts have left Twitter, and Elon Musk has significantly damaged the science reporting on the glacier. Twitter has been instrumental for climatologists to share information. The media has yet to report on the fuckery unfolding at Thwaites.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/20/2148249/-The-Thwaites-tongue-goes-when-Iceberg-B45-goes-A-K-A-pinning-point-9