El Niño kickstarted the melting of Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' 80 years ago, new study reveals

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Rapid melting of the Thwaites Glacier in west Antarctica began in the 1940s following an unusually hot El Niño fluctuation, ice cores have revealed.

El Niño kickstarted the melting of Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' 80 years ago, new study reveals : Read more

 

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In the early '40s, humanity burned a bunch of oil tankers and incinerated a bunch of cities and people for about 5 years, not to mention the accelerated use of resources and fossil fuels. I might have missed that in the article. I would like to think the people that did this analysis took that into account.