"Antarctica melting" Journey to the Doomsday Glacier | English News | Everyday Big News

"Antarctica melting" Journey to the "Doomsday Glacier" | Everyday Big News

if we're thinking about what a sea level going to be like in ten years whether you're building a dike around your town or anticipating how far inland to move coastal cities in Florida. Antarctica melting a big problem.

The glacier is a big piece of that question and this is the location to be asking these questions at where we're standing right on it.

Ice Melting:

His is a historic moment the first time anyone has tried to drill down through this grass here beneath the six hundred meters of ice below.

The most important point of all the point at which the ice meets the ocean water this is ice Vinnytsia it's a Nasa-funded robot submarine.

This is the first time any measurements have been taken beneath what they call the Doomsday Garcia.

It's the first time anyone has seen this is the point where the ice meets the warmer ocean water it's the place where this huge Gracia is rapidly melting so this glacier is significant because it is huge and it's deep it's thick there's a giant volume of ice.

The bottom of the ice is below sea level and so that means that it's very sensitive to change so the ocean can very easily melt in and thin this glacier,

So throats grass is really remote it's right at the heart of the vast basin of ice that's West Antarctica the glasses the size of the UK.Antarctica melting,

It's the stormiest part of the stormiest the continent in the world and more than a thousand miles from the nearest research station all this.

Broken it's almost a hundred miles long the ice rises almost a a mile from the seabed and it's collapsing into the sea at two miles a year if frights melt.

It’ll increase sea levels worldwide by half a meter but it's in the middle of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and thus three meters more of sea-level rise locked up in that standby 3/2.

We have just detonated a shot and recorded the energy the echo from the explosion in order to map the grounding zone so the point, Antarctica melting is really a big problem.

Where the glacier glows afloat on the ocean it is changing it is migrating inland and so this huge reservoir of ice behind us is becoming vulnerable to the ocean melting,

What's happening out there let's be clear that the ice here isn't going to vanish overnight it'll take decades maybe even centuries for the weights to go,

But as the work here has confirmed it is melting increasingly rapidly and that will mean huge changes for us all.