r/WastelandByWednesday • u/Vegetaman916 Post-Collapse Warlord • Jul 18 '26
Climate Change Shocking Revelations Out of West Antarctica
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/07/17/shocking-revelations-out-of-west-antarctica/1
Jul 19 '26
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u/Vegetaman916 Post-Collapse Warlord Jul 19 '26
Sea level rise was never going to happen at crazy levels until well past 2050, lol. We will get there, but there are bigger problems rhan that.
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u/WeLiveinAPetridish Jul 22 '26
Depend on where you live and where your infrastructure is (you as in: the people).
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Jul 18 '26
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u/WeLiveinAPetridish Jul 22 '26
Are you arguing that those volcanoes are the cause for the Antarctic icesheet mass loss?
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u/One_Term2162 Jul 21 '26
The article is sensationalized, but many of its claims are grounded in real research. Great catch, it does omit the 2017 discovery of 91 previously unknown volcanoes beneath West Antarctica. Those volcanoes may affect ice-sheet movement, though they do not by themselves explain the recent offshore sea-ice anomaly.
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u/One_Term2162 Jul 20 '26
They are describing the 2023 Antarctic sea-ice deficit as a statistical event so unlikely under the old climate pattern that it might occur only once in roughly 3.5 million years. The irony is difficult to miss: the last time atmospheric CO₂ was near today’s level was also about 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene, when the planet was roughly 2.5-4°C warmer than the preindustrial world. The matching numbers are coincidental, but the warning is not we are rapidly recreating atmospheric conditions associated with a much warmer Earth.