Essay by Eric Worrall

Alarmists claim a big glacier in Antarctica could “swallow parts of cities all over the world”.

How Australia will be impacted by the ‘doomsday glacier’ that could swallow cities

The collapse of this one glacier could raise sea levels enough to swallow cities all over the world.

Maddison Brennan-Mills
July 16, 2025 – 1:44PM

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There’s a glacier in Antarctica so big and unstable that scientists from The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration call it the “Doomsday Glacier”. 

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Thwaites Glacier is in West Antarctica and is roughly the size of Great Britain. It’s more than 2 kilometres thick in places, which, when melted, is an astonishing amount of water. 

Scientists warn that if it fully collapses, it could raise global sea levels by approximately 65 centimetres. 

“If Thwaites Glacier collapses it would cause a rise of around 65cm (25 inches) in sea level,” said Dr Alastair Graham of the University of South Florida.

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A 65 centimetre rise is enough to flood huge areas of low-lying land. Cities like New York, London, and Bangkok would see chronic inundation.

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Read more: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/how-australia-will-be-impacted-by-the-doomsday-glacier-that-could-swallow-cities/news-story/995bbda2e34fa6d68118af76a8e20c8c

Like all remotely plausible climate crisis, this doomsday scenario relies on people doing absolutely nothing to help themselves, to adapt and rectify issues.

In the Netherlands / Holland, they defeated the sea by building dikes and pumps to protect their fields. Much of Holland would be inundated by sea water long ago if it weren’t for anti-flooding systems which have been in place for centuries.

In the Italian city of Venice, they drove huge wooden pilings into the silt, and used it to create a stable foundation for one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Some of the most impressive innovations in my opinion occurred in the 19th century United States. Entire cities were raised one floor, like Chicago (see picture at the top of the page) where buildings were jacked up, and Seattle, where streets were simply raised one floor, and what was formerly the street level became an underground tunnel network.

To believe this “Doomsday glacier” is a crisis requires believing people of today couldn’t replicate a feat performed almost two centuries ago by ancestors who mostly used hand tools.

And of course there is China and Singapore. Singapore today is significantly larger than the Singapore of 200 years ago, whenever they run out of realestate they pour a bit of concrete and reclaim large tracts of land from the sea.

Such work is still ongoing, on many different scales. I once lived in house which fronted onto a tidal river. The property title dated back to the time of Robin Hood’s King John around 1200AD, so part of it was underwater. The owner who moved in after I left had the floor raised 3ft, to reduce the risk of flooding. During the coming decades, individual home owners lucky enough to live in such beautiful places will deal with flood risk on their own dime, and local governments will eventually be prodded into raising streets prone to flood damage, or improving drainage and installing flood pumps.

If that glacier collapses, nobody will even notice – all the remedial work will have already been done.

How can anyone take such fake crisis seriously?

Sadly we have a Climategate email which may help answer this question, at least about how some alarmists feel. The author is the “Hide the Decline” former CRU director Dr. Phil Jones.

From: Phil Jones [redacted]
To: John Christy [redacted]
Subject: This and that
Date: Tue Jul 5 15:51:55 2005

John,

There has been some email traffic in the last few days to a week – quite a bit really, only a small part about MSU. The main part has been one of your House subcommittees wanting Mike Mann and others and IPCC to respond on how they produced their reconstructions and how IPCC produced their report. In case you want to look at this see later in the email !

Also this load of rubbish !

This is from an Australian at BMRC (not Neville Nicholls). It began from the attached article. What an idiot. The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.

The Australian also alerted me to this blogging ! I think this is the term ! Luckily I don’t live in Australia.

[1]https://ift.tt/v3Hgn9h Unlike the UK, the public in Australia is very very naive about climate change, mostly because of our governments Kyoto stance, and because there is a proliferation of people with no climate knowledge at all that are prepared to do the gov bidding. Hence the general populace is at best confused, and at worst, antagonistic about climate change – for instance, at a recent rural meeting on drought, attended by politicians and around 2000 farmers, a Qld collegue – Dr Roger Stone – spoke about drought from a climatologist point of view, and suggested that climate change may be playing a role in Australias continuing drought+water problem. He was booed and heckled (and unfortunately some politicians applauded when this happened) – that’s what we’re dealing with due to columists such as the one I sent to you.

Now to your email. I have seen the latest Mears and Wentz paper (to Science), but am not reviewing it, thank goodness. I am reviewing a couple of papers on extremes, so that I can refer to them in the chapter for AR4. Somewhat circular, but I kept to my usual standards. The Hadley Centre are working on the day/night issue with sondes, but there are a lot of problems as there are very few sites in the tropics with both and where both can be distinguished. My own view if that the sondes are overdoing the cooling wrt MSU4 in the lower stratosphere, and some of this likely (IPCC definition) affects the upper troposphere as well. Sondes are a mess and the fact you get agreement with some of them is miraculous. Have you looked at individual sondes, rather than averages – particularly tropical ones? LKS is good, but the RATPAC update less so. As for being on the latest VG analysis, Kostya wanted it to use the surface data.

I thought the model comparisons were a useful aside, so agreed. Ben sent me a paper he’s submitted with lots of model comparisons that I also thought a useful addition to the subject.

As for resolving all this (as opposed to the dogfight) I’m hoping that CCSP will come up with something – a compromise. I might be naive in this respect. I hope you are still emailing and talking to Carl and Frank. How is CCSP going? Are you still on schedule for end of August for your open review?

What will be interesting is to see how IPCC pans out, as we’ve been told we can’t use any article that hasn’t been submitted by May 31. This date isn’t binding, but Aug 12 is a little more as this is when we must submit our next draft – the one everybody will be able to get access to and comment upon. The science isn’t going to stop from now until AR4 comes out in early 2007, so we are going to have to add in relevant new and important papers. I hope it is up to us to decide what is important and new. So, unless you get something to me soon, it won’t be in this version. It shouldn’t matter though, as it will be ridiculous to keep later drafts without it. We will be open to criticism though with what we do add in subsequent drafts. Someone is going to check the final version and the Aug 12 draft. This is partly why I’ve sent you the rest of this email. IPCC, me and whoever will get accused of being political, whatever we do. As you know, I’m not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

Cheers

Phil

Source: Partial excerpt Climategate Email 1120593115.txt

Luckily for the rest of us, those who are looking forward to any kind of noticeable climate crisis are doomed to disappointment.

From THE DAILY CALLER

Audrey Streb
DCNF Energy Reporter

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday in Pennsylvania that 20 companies are bringing $92 billion in energy and technology investment to the Keystone State, capital he says will help secure U.S. dominance in both fields.

Announcements included multi-billion investments into artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, natural gas plants and hydropower facilities in the state. The investments are expected to strengthen Pennsylvania’s electricity grid and pave the way for America to lead the world in AI innovation, Trump said from the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.

“Today’s commitments are ensuring that the future is going to be designed, built and made right here in Pennsylvania and right here in Pittsburgh, and, I have to say, right here in the United States of America,” Trump said. “The investments being announced this afternoon include more than $56 billion dollars in new energy infrastructure, and more than $36 billion dollars in new data center projects — and a lot more than that are going to be announced in the coming weeks.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Energy Agenda Can Help US Beat China In Crucial Tech Race, Oil Industry Leader Says)

TRUMP: “20 leading technology and energy companies are announcing more than $92 billion in investments in Pennsylvania.” pic.twitter.com/5BwNrKGOux

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 15, 2025

Trump also said at the summit that Knighthead Capital Management plans to invest $15 billion to resurrect the defunct Homer City Generating Station. The plant was the largest coal-fired power station in Pennsylvania before its closure in 2023, according to the Energy Information Administration.

The summit featured Trump, cabinet members, major energy and tech industry leaders, as well as Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick and Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Tech companies like Google, Blackstone and CoreWeave pledged to invest billions into AI infrastructure and data centers served by the PJM Interconnection, the power grid that delivers electricity to Pennsylvania and numerous other states.

The Department of Energy (DOE) issued an emergency order to the grid operator in May, ordering Pennsylvania to keep some generation units online past their scheduled retirement dates in order to prevent power shortages.

AI data centers burn through large amounts of power, and they are expected to proliferate while American energy infrastructure ages and power plants are retired. The combination has led some power grid analysts to project that U.S. power supply may be inadequate in the coming years barring the addition of new generation.

While former President Joe Biden went all in on green energy initiatives, Trump has favored more conventional power sources and declared an energy emergency on the first day of his term. Since then, Trump has signed several executive orders to clear red tape for energy technology like nuclear and coal and his administration has moved to strengthen America’s ailing electricity grid.

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By Karen Harbert

Today, countries around the globe are in a new race for primacy of artificial intelligence (AI) that will define economic and technological competition in the 21st century. As global powers like China accelerate investments, America’s ability to lead hinges on its capability to rapidly scale compute capacity, a feat dependent on abundant and available energy. While many energy sources will play a role, there is one that can provide the reliability, flexibility, and scalability to keep America at the head of the race: natural gas.

Advancing AI infrastructure means providing the energy to support exponential computational growth. From California to Texas to Virginia, data centers are popping up at an unprecedented rate, each requiring extensive power infrastructure. Goldman Sachs Research estimates data center power demand will grow by 160% by 2030.

Without adequate energy infrastructure, America’s AI ambitions risk being throttled. The race for AI primacy depends on our ability to scale our energy infrastructure to meet the growing demand while maintaining reliability, affordability and safety for data centers, for businesses and manufacturing and for our families.

Of all the available energy sources in the U.S., natural gas is uniquely positioned to support the rapid demand growth required for America to lead the way in AI without jeopardizing reliability or affordability. With more than 2.8 million miles of pipeline networks, extensive storage systems, and abundant natural gas resources, the U.S. natural gas industry is strategically placed to serve as the backbone of a scalable energy system that can reliably meet surging energy demands.

We currently have a front row seat to history with the opportunity to accelerate the buildout of the vast natural gas pipeline system to meet the increasing energy demands from data centers. Pipeline development projects help to ensure consistent and reliable energy delivery to new large demand centers and existing consumers.

Every year, more than 21,000 businesses sign up to use natural gas for their manufacturing processes, heating needs, and operational tasks. Its cost-effectiveness is unmatched, with natural gas saving commercial and industrial customers more than half a trillion dollars over the last decade.

Data centers value reliability of supply at a premium: 78% of surveyed data centers experienced power outages between 2017 and 2020, with unplanned downtime costing some facilities more than $100,000 per incident. Such losses of power risk corrupting data, halting critical services, and even melting down servers. With only one in 650 natural gas customers expected to experience a planned or unplanned natural gas outage in any given year, natural gas is a clear solution.

Natural gas continues to drive clean energy in the power sector. Since 2005, natural gas has been responsible for 60% of the CO2 emission reductions in electricity generation. As the energy sector advances and innovates, natural gas will continue to play a vital role in driving sustainable progress.

The partnership of natural gas and AI can position American business and manufacturing at the forefront of innovation. It can increase living standards and fuel economic growth in ways unseen since the Industrial Revolution. It will strengthen our national security and keep America as a production giant on the global stage.

The innovative relationship between AI and natural gas also creates a virtuous cycle – while natural gas fuels AI, the technology itself provides vast opportunities to help make natural gas distribution smarter, more efficient and cleaner. Advanced AI can optimize energy exploration, enhance system repairs and improvements, and create a cleaner, more efficient and less costly natural gas system. Further innovation in renewable natural gas and hydrogen blending will also continue to advance a more efficient, lower-emissions energy system.

The U.S. has always risen to the challenge of global competition through innovation, resilience and strategic investment. In the 1960s, it was about reaching the moon. Today, it’s about leading on artificial intelligence, maximizing our economic capabilities, and winning that race against competitors like China. According to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, U.S. natural gas provides the critical competitive advantage that America can utilize to get ahead.

Natural gas is the key to ensuring America wins in this race. Policymakers must recognize the critical intersection of energy and AI competitiveness. Accelerating the expansion and modernization of natural gas infrastructure is needed to keep pace with growing demand. Therefore, streamlined permitting reform is now vital to support American innovation. The stakes are high, and the competition is fierce, but with natural gas fueling our advancement, America is well-equipped to cross the finish line first.

Karen Harbert is President and CEO of the American Gas Association. 

This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.