YEARS FROM NOW: 10,000
If a failure of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin
"ice plub" in the next few ceneturies were to
endanger the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it will
take up to this long to melt completely.
Sea levels would rise three to four meters.
According to Berger and Loutre, the current
interglacial period ends sending the Earth back
into a glacial period of the current ice age,
regardless of the effects of anthropogenic global warming.
Earth will likely have undergone a supervolcanic eruption large enough
to erupt 400 km3 of magma. For comparison, Lake Erie is 484 km3
Earth will likely have been hit by an asteroid of roughly 1 km in diameter, assuming it cannot be averted.
