Thwaites Glacier's disappearance will have a tragic impact

Large rise in sea levels, several islands wiped off the map... Here is why Thwaites Glacier's melting is worrying to scientists.

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00:00This is one of the manifestations of the fact that climate change is real.

00:17One among the fires, the heatwaves, the floods, the typhoons.

00:23For me it's serious, yes, in fact, that is to say, it's catastrophic events.

00:30Which two metres of the card will be thrown away?

00:36Which two metres of the card will be thrown away?

00:41Which two metres of the card will be thrown away?

00:48Two metres is enormous, it's really a lot.

00:51There are lots of islands that will be thrown away.

01:54It could be in the next century, so it means that it is still quite serious.

02:15One of the questions we ask ourselves is when there is a point of rupture such

02:19that we switch to another type of ecosystem, to another type of environment

02:25that we don't know anything about, with the consequences that we are not able to predict.

02:29Scientists tell us that we have a few years to completely transform our economic models,

02:35stop using fossil fuels and therefore certainly operate a significant energy decline on the planet,

02:42and this before it is too late.