Mexico City
Two major glaciers of Antarctica, the Pine Island and Thwaites reached a point of no return in terms of the melting process It reached a point of no return, experts confirmed after observations that a satellite was picking up.
This fact could collapse the West Antarctic shelf, with enough ice to raise the sea level by more than three meters, according to a study published in the journal Cryosphere, conducted by researchers at the Northumbria University
“The possibility that Pine Island had entered an unstable phase of retirement was already relieved, but our research is the first to confirm that it has exceeded this critical threshold“, He said Sebastian Rosier, who is leading the study.
Both the glacier Pine Island and Thwaites have been supervised for years, as both contribute about 10 percent to sea level rise, Explain Massimo Frezzotti, researcher at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies ENEA
“Until now, glaciological models have not been able to reproduce the data resulting from satellite observations. The warning indicators extracted from the observations were reproduced in this model, confirming that the limit thresholds have already been exceeded due to the ingress of warm ocean waterGod Frezzotti.
Maximum also explains that the temperature of the water in the Antarctica is -2 degrees, but 2.3 degrees of water enters with a high melting temperature
The collapse this could cause would result in Venice being completely submerged, he continues Frezzotti: “This could cause the cap to collapse and global sea levels could rise by three meters. Just to give an example of its consequences, Venice would be completely submerged