Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm (a superb NYT interactive article)

[Celerity]

Wilder winds are altering currents. The sea is releasing carbon dioxide. Ice is melting from below.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/climate/antarctic-climate-change.html

Rising from the Antarctic, a climate alarm

A new generation of floating, autonomous probes that can collect data on temperature, density and other subjects for years — diving deep underwater, and even exploring beneath the Antarctic sea ice, before rising to the surface to phone home — has enabled scientists to learn much more about the immense, forbidding Southern Ocean.

The dominant feature of that ocean, extending up to two miles deep and as much as 1,200 miles wide, is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. It is the world’s climate engine, and it has prevented further warming by drawing deep water from other oceans and pulling it to the surface. Our interactive shows how the current works.

But those probes have shown that global warming is affecting the Antarctic current in complex ways, and those shifts could complicate the ability to fight climate change in the future. In addition, the Southern Ocean is getting warmer, potentially putting the Antarctic’s vast, thick ice sheets at risk.

Quotable: In effect, “Antarctica is melting from the bottom,” said Henri Drake, an oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#AGU21 Press Conference: The Threat from Thwaites: The retreat of Antarctica’s riskiest glacier

The ‘Doomsday’ Glacier May Be in More Trouble Than We Thought

https://atmos.earth/thwaites-glacier-doomsday-sea-level-rise-study/

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Read earlier today, agree, excellent article/presentation ...

Scary AF too

[cstanleytech]

2. "Scary AF" Depends on what exactly the effects are on things like

the temperature, CO2 and oxygen on the planet so we need to see what the science says more than anything.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Lets just say the overall set of facts presented don't sound very promising and potentially are

pretty scary-sounding.

[jalan48]

4. Isn't there a climate provision in the infrastructure bill waiting in limbo or did that get deleted?

[Celerity]

5. The House version yes, but Manchin has yet to wield his cleaver

Key to Biden’s Climate Agenda Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/climate/biden-clean-energy-manchin.html

[Duppers]

6. K & R