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My house is two blocks from the ocean, 2.6m (8.5') above mean sea level. I know at some point it can't last. I expect to move before then.

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I dont think that will be an issue in your lifetime, unless you are in an area prone to storm surge. In which case your elevation is ALREADY a problem.

> "Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales in the future -- even from one year to the next -- once the glacier retreats beyond a shallow ridge in its bed," Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist and one of the study's co-authors from the British Antarctic Survey, said in the release.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/05/world/thwaites-doomsday-g...

Thwaites gone would constitute a sea level rise of 10 feet, iirc.

The actual number is 25 inches, and most consensus suggests collapse over centuries.

There is some concern that a bracing portion of the glacier may collapse soon, which would take Thwaites from 4 to 6% of contribution to sea level rise.

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