With climate change, global epidemic and economic problems in our country, we are now desperately waiting to hear good and happy news. However, scientists shared that during this bad course, there is also the risk of a glacier collapsing that could ‘end the world’. Researchers state that the ‘Thwaites Glacier’ in Antarctica, also known as the ‘Doomsday Glacier’, may be the biggest disaster on Earth since the asteroid that brought the end of the dinosaurs.
One of the features that make the glacier dangerous is its gigantic size. Researchers say that this UK-sized glacier could collapse completely within ten years. If this happens, it is predicted that the events that will lead the world to disaster will come one after another. Thwaites, the world’s largest glacier, could alone raise the ocean level by 60 cm if it collapsed. It is estimated that this level will rise up to 3 meters if it takes the glaciers around it with it at the time of collapse. According to experts, this means apocalypse for the world.
Expected to collapse by 2030:
The seriousness of the situation can be explained more clearly with the following information shared: Although there has been only a 30 cm rise in the ocean level since 1900, many coastal countries are at risk of flooding and sinking. According to experts, an increase of 3 meters can recreate the world map. The International Thwaites Glacier Association states that there are three factors that will trigger the collapse of the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ by 2030.
Glaciologist Erin Pettit states that the part of the glacier that comes into contact with the ocean continues to melt as a result of increasing temperatures and at the same time begins to break away from its bed under the water. Pettit states that even before the glacier breaks completely, it will begin to fall apart during this process. On the other hand, some researchers think that these fragments, which are shattered and spilled, will prevent the glacier from collapsing completely. While it is not certain whether the Catastrophic Glacier will truly bring ‘calamity’, it does not bode well for scientists to continue to form several kilometers of cracks in the glacier each year.
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