CNN - Ocean water is rushing miles underneath Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier," new research shows, meaning global sea level rise projections could be significantly underestimated. The Thwaites Glacier, which already contributes 4% to global sea level rise, holds enough ice to raise sea levels by more than 2 feet. But because it also acts as a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, scientists have estimated its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet of sea level rise — a catastrophe for the world's coastal communities. New data helped to create an X-ray of the glacier and could help improve the accuracy of its forecasted timeline.
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I call it the rolling climate catastrophe. My work is in advocating in my community that we should center climate justice in our economic development plans because there is no way we will meet the situation we find ourselves in without a total effort. If climate justice is not centered in economic development the economy will crash. Recent report said fixing climate would cost $6 trillion a year, but by 2050 it will cost us $38 Trillion a year to fix the damage it we do not fix the problem starting now.
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