Doomsday update just dropped:
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Doomsday update just dropped:
"If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea. ... It’s not only goodbye Miami, but goodbye to virtually every low-lying coastal city in the world."
Holy shit.
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@RexChapman
“New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are de
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and a terror 
the critics only saw a mirror
watched it Xmas eve with a houseguest who worked on the set... fun times
IIRC, the Great Plains are scheduled to get drier and drier as climate change proceeds, eventually becoming more desert-like. It’ll take decades, but it looks like the powers that be are going to drive us off that cliff, if it isn’t already too late due to feed-back loops being triggered by the already baked-in CO2 load.
All that’s also largely on the GOP’s head, too. (Resolving the crisis is the responsibility of every country, if primarily the industrialized ones, and most are not doing a lot better than the US. So actually not all the GOP’s fault. 
/pedantry)
Found the melting of the glacier is fake news. And in fact, it will end the drought problem in the west.
Do not trust science!!!!!!
PS.
Much of the Deep South disappears under the waves, New York, Chicago, Montreal, Vancouver, Washington DC, Boston, Los Angeles are partially submerged. Seattle turns into an archipelago. London, Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, are partially submerged. Tokyo survives by dint of some very interesting engineering, but it too becomes a bunch of interconnected islands. Most of Western China, the most populated part, is gone. Sydney, a significant chunk of Brazil, most of Coastal India.
When Thwaites goes, the floodgates open. Part of the reason that sea rise has been so minimal thus far has been due to the fact that the glaciers that have melted have been over water. The worst effect of that is slowing the Gulf Stream, but we're already beginning to sea land-based glacial melting in Greenland, and there is significant evidence of melted ice creating water sheets underneath the glaciers in Antarctica, meaning that once a path opens, up, land-based glaciers will start sliding into the Antarctic Ocean very quickly.
Now, this is THE worst case. A ten-meter rise (which would be disastrous, and is at the very upper end of what I've heard for 2100). What I expect is that we'll see periods of stability with random disruptive events that will cause water levels to rise by several meters in a single decade over the course of the next millennium. This is nearly as bad, because there's no real way to tell how long those periods of stability are likely to be, but I suspect that the intervening collapses will be dramatic.
move operations down to the Antarctic and drill there -- far, far easier than where they drill right now, 24/7/365 -- set up the drills to run during all seasons. Which they could do. They would succeed in drilling down into the rock and re-anchoring the slipping major glaciers on Antarctica, which would take a few years. So what if it's in a novel. It's an untried solution that can buy us at least a decade and save us from wet light bulb temperatures that will kill millions upon millions.
The additional rise of ocean levels everywhere would affect the North Atlantic current and probably stall it or possibly even reverse it. The North Atlantic current is what keeps Europe as a warm and moderate climate, but that would all change immediately. Europe will freeze overnight if that happens.
I'm not sure if this is enough to flood all of Manhattan and other eastern cities, but it would certainly cause major trouble in the subways and tunnels, probably bridges and other avenues of transportation. How will people even get off the island of Manhattan to save themselves if everything is flooded? Consider Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, and there are many more cities but you get the idea. Large-scale rescue plans need to be devised for when this collapse occurs.
