'Just a small kick to Thwaites could lead to a big response,' warned the alarming new study's lead author.
offers a first-of-its-kind look at the body's transformation over time, finding that"sustained pulses of rapid retreat have occurred at Thwaites Glacier in the past two centuries."
"For Thwaites, the importance of our results lies in two take-home messages. The first is that Thwaites has undergone significantly faster rates of retreat in the past than it is experiencing right now," they continued."This finding raises the potential upper 'speed limit' on our expectations for Thwaites behavior in the near future."
In a statement, Graham warned that"just a small kick to Thwaites could lead to a big response." Researchers havethat several feet of global sea level rise could have devastating consequences, displacing tens of millions of people.
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