fuse has been blown and doomsday is coming for us all," yikes. this glacier is holding back enough ice to raise the sea level around the world by ten feet. a new study found the ice shelf holding that ice in place could be gone in less than a decade. i'm going to quote for you from this new piece. if thwaites glacier collapses, it opens the door for the ice sheet to slide into the sea. globally 250 million people live within three feet of high tide lines. ten feet of sea level rise would be world-bending catastrophe. goodbye to any low-lying area in the world. i read your last book about flooding, and describe for met finding here. there's sort of a difference between the shelf the glacier is