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East Antarctica’s Totten Glacier has been revealed to be more unstable than previously anticipated. New research has found that portions of the glacier that were thought to be on stable ground are actually floating on seawater, prompting concerns over the ice sheet’s stability, and its potential to significantly contribute to the acceleration of sea level rise.

Totten Glacier is a flowing ice field that is more than three-quarters the size of Texas, and holds a massive volume of ice that could raise sea levels by 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) if it were to completely melt.
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Earth’s climate has entered the state of chaos I have been predicting since the publication of Nature’s End in 1984. The terrible fires predicted on the west coast in that book started to happen this year, and the great midwestern drought will inevitably follow, when I cannot tell. But with arctic temperatures soaring beyond all expectation, even beyond belief, it must happen. With it will come reduced grains production and, quite possibly, for the first time in American history, food shortages.
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Last week, temperatures in the Arctic once again went above freezing, following a split in the Polar Vortex that allowed warm air currents to flow into the region, with some stations recording temperatures 25ºC (45ºF) above normal. This event accompanies an abrupt retreat of sea ice in the Bering Sea, having lost almost one-third of its coverage in just over a week.
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