Thursday, 27 Aug 2020 06:46 PM MYT
Melt water running into deep fissures caused by warming air is undermining the structural integrity of these natural barricades, they reported in“If the ice shelves fill up with melt water, things can happen very quickly,” said co-author Jonathan Kingslake, a glaciologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
The United Nation’s science advisory panel for climate change, the IPCC, has forecast that oceans will rise up to a metre by the end of the century, and even more after that.Ice shelves are often wedged between land formations such as at the mouth of a bay, which helps them resist the pressure of the glaciers pushing toward the sea.
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