Maureen Raymo et.al. found that sea level rose rapidly at end eemian---just before the recent period of glaciation started
these 2 bits seem connected, but I have found no study combining the 2
i recall falling over something slightly similar.
musing on this
with atmospheric Co2 low and increased sea level, this may push glacification.
however.
we need to see the data along side the Co2 levels
low co2 large eruption on large melting glacial bridge/damn
etc...
we can conjure many potential concepts.
what the antarctic scientists seem to describe is a regular pattern of melting and then freezing again.
what has never happened before is human global warming via things like nuclear weapons tests
massive coal burning
massive phosphate dumping into the sea growing algae blooms(heating the sea)
look at WWII when entire citys were set on fire
look at recent asia with entire Forrest being burnt to the ground and the non stop deforestation.
never before has the earth had soo little trees
i think the accumulative effect of
human heat production via citys factory pollution run off into the sea acidification of the sea
added on top of
massive 1st time in the history of the planet massive deforestation
human Co2 production
these will be far outweigh any mild swings of balanced tipping of scale back n forth between icing & de-icing.
So the Thwaites glacier crossing its tipping point and breaking free at its grounding line (due to greenhouse warmed water moving in underneath it) will become bad news quite rapidly - long before it all melts.
the exponential effect some have been mentioning.
i have mentioned it several times.
it seems logical and seems like it should be focussed on to attempt to establish some models of exponential factors to try and gauge things.
my last comment was the suggested moot
for example if global sea level rise became 2 meters in 10 years.
