Is the world’s most important glacier on the brink of collapse?
Science Weekly
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🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:37.6 | Search EDF Energy.com slash Energy Specialist to find out more. Standing on top of the Thwaite's Glacier in Antarctica, you would probably describe it as a big white wasteland, a flat sheet stretching endlessly in every direction. |
| 1:08.5 | But despite its remote in hospitality, what's happening at the Thwaites Glacier is critical for the rest of the planet, |
| 1:16.0 | because it's melting fast. Not only does Thwaits contain enough water to raise sea levels by more than 50 centimeters, it acts a bit |
| 1:26.2 | like a cork holding back other glaciers that make up the West Antarctica sheet. And this means that if Thwaite's Glacier breaks apart, the loss of others could follow, |
| 1:38.0 | eventually putting it at risk of catastrophic global sea level rises of several meters, leading some to call it the most important |
| 1:46.2 | glacial in the world. |
| 1:50.9 | So last week on the 100th anniversary of Ernest Shackleton's death |
| 1:54.4 | scientists set off for Antarctica to understand health weights is melting and |
| 1:58.8 | how quickly it's happening and they're taking along with them what is surely the most famous robotic sub in the world. |
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| 2:30.4 | From the Guardian, I'm in sample and this is Science Weekly. Dr Rob Lata is a marine geophysicist working at the British Antarctic survey and a member of the research group that's headed out to explore the Thwaites Glacier. |
| 2:34.4 | This time Rob isn't going to Antarctica himself, but he has visited the Glacier several times |
| 2:39.3 | before. |
| 2:40.8 | One thing you have to do usually to get into the Thwaits Lassia region is you have to go through a sea ice barrier, |
| 2:48.0 | thick extensive sea ice on the outer shelf of the Amundsen Sea and so that's a first challenge and |
| 2:55.5 | moment of excitement and then it is amazing to see such a remote place and to be there |
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