Thwaites Glacier: Biggest ever Antarctic field campaign

[Judi Lynn]

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
30 April 2018

It is going to be one of the biggest projects ever undertaken in Antarctica.

UK and US scientists will lead a five-year effort to examine the stability of the mighty Thwaites Glacier.

This ice stream in the west of the continent is comparable in size to Britain. It is melting and is currently in rapid retreat, accounting for around 4% of global sea-level rise - an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.

Researchers want to know if Thwaites could collapse.

More:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43936372

[mr_lebowski]

1. Queue the conspiracy theories that the scientists work for AlGore and going there to destabilize

the glacier in purpose in order to make sure global warming proceeds according to the climate change cabal's nefarious plans to subjugate us all under the yoke of globalist tyranny.