Thwaites glacier instability

[jim mcnamara]

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JF008118

A recent paper on the attempts to estimate when and how massive the Thwaites breakup may be.

 

[sbrothy]

Wiki says 2 km/year. Isn’t that quite fast for a glacier?

But that doesn’t bode well for the climate, I’m sure. I understand it’s positively massive.