Doomsday Glacier to Thwaites Glacier

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Jeff Cadell: Is there anything that can be done to stop it from collapsing or has that ship sailed? He says the big tool is decarbonization, getting off fossil fuels. And then preparing in a realistic way for the fact that seas are going to rise," he adds.

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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