BaronOfHair
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The ice caps melting is going to put Miami underwater. Miami is fxcked by the end of the century. Hope you have ironclad flood insurance.
Do melting ice sheets spell doomsday? Glaciologist weighs in
Temple University Professor Atsuhiro Muto explains how climate change is affecting our planet’s vital ice sheets.
news.temple.edu
“It is very unlikely to completely melt,” Muto said. “But if even a small portion of the Antarctic ice sheet melted, say, enough to raise sea level by a foot or two, it would inundate much of Earth’s coastal areas and displace many millions of people.”
If by "displace" we mean "People may have to move a bit further inland", this is far from catastrophic. An inconvenience, sure, nonetheless not the end of the world. This is all assuming that the sea does end up rising a foot or two
Also:
"The warming atmosphere caused in part by climate change is melting glaciers around the world, including the Greenland ice sheet. But Muto says that most of the current melting in Antarctica is instead caused by changes in ocean circulation that bring warmer waters to the ice sheet. The warm water is melting ice beneath Antarctica, but humans aren’t entirely to blame for the change in ocean currents"