Our mission is to raise public awareness of this threat in order to create pressure for urgent action.

PHOTO: James Yungel, CC www.nasa.gov/icebridge

Dan March, PhD

“The failure of the Thwaites Glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Shelf will cause a sudden, and irreversible,10-foot global sea level rise in the immediate future, according to international teams of scientists focused on studying the accelerating melt of the ice currently anchoring it to rock.

Estimates from among these scientists vary only slightly: none appear willing to make any assurances that it will not occur immediately.

Outside estimates range from ‘no more than 3’, or ‘5 years but no more than 10’.

All agree that even ‘within 10 years’ requires officials to respond to the essential task of taking as much action as quickly as possible to reestablish or otherwise protect coastal infrastructure.”

– D. March, Open Letter to City of Vallejo, California, January 2023

Activism

Thwaites Threat is organizing events in 2023 that will make it impossible for Bay Area communities to remain unaware of what a 10 foot sea rise would mean… for people, for business, for infrastructure.

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Advocacy

Bay Area residents and businesses will need to organize and advocate for preemptive solutions to sudden sea level rise. ThwaitesThreat.org is here to help.

Vision

Sudden sea rise will require nimble, pragmatic, large scale responses. ThwaitesThreat.org envisions sponsoring multi-disciplinary expertise to articulate viable approaches to mitigation of existential sea level rise – just as the Netherlands responded with definitive action, to floods in 1953.

Solutions

Sudden sea rise will also require smaller-scale civic and private solutions. From desalination of fresh water sources flowing into the Bay to basic preventions a family could implement – we will drive action at the civic and private level.

Thwaites Threat dot Org is in the process of registering as a 501 c3 non-profit organization in California, dedicated to the mitigation of sudden sea rise effects in the San Francisco Bay area.