No one knows exactly what the time scale is. You've never watched a giant glacier like Thwaits collapse in real time before, so we don't really know how fast it can go. But it's happening faster than people previously thought. People thought it was very stable before, and now we know that it's not very stable.
While the world’s leaders are meeting at COP27 to discuss climate change, Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting. The world’s coastlines face catastrophic consequences. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell went to see it with his own eyes.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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