Tessa Schlesinger
2 min readAug 22, 2023

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I have no idea why you are talking about stopping climate change. My article doesn't mention stopping climate change. So can you please tell me what you are referring to?

For the rest of it, with regard to the politics and the fossil fuel misinformation, even if you made the situation very clear, humanity is not prepared to give up its lifestyle. I explained all that.

You said, ".solar, wind, grid connections, batteries. EV's."

Seriously? I don't have time to go into that. I suggest you do a lot more reading on that score.

Thwaites falling into the sea would be responsible for about 2 feet of sea rise within a very short time - a few hours or a few weeks. The rest of it would take quite a long time as the rest followed - decades.

I studied some of this at college, but have been reading about it and studying it on my own for 50 years, and I do not say anything without checking sources.

QUOTE: If – or when – the entire Thwaites Glacier melts, Scambos says it will result in around 0.6 meters of sea level rise. But the interior section of Thwaites is surrounded by other massive ice sheets that cover west Antarctica. And since Thwaites sits in a giant, low elevation basin, if it melts, the rest of the ice will flow into the basin and melt, too. Add all that ice up and you get more than three meters of sea level rise.

https://theconversation.com/thwaites-glacier-the-melting-antarctic-monster-of-sea-level-rise-podcast-191057

QUOTE: The complete collapse of the Thwaites itself could lead to sea level rise of more than two feet (70 centimeters), which would be enough to devastate coastal communities around the world. But the Thwaites is also acting like a natural dam to the surrounding ice in West Antarctica, and scientists have estimated global sea level could ultimately rise around 10 feet if the Thwaites collapsed.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/15/world/thwaites-doomsday-glacier-sea-level-climate-intl/index.html#

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