Here’s another argument for keeping the world’s fossil fuels in the ground: If all the coal, gas, and oil on Earth is extracted and burned, the Antarctic ice-sheet will melt entirely, scientists warn in a “blockbuster” new study published Friday in the research journal Science Advances.

“The mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it, and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come. If we want to avoid Antarctica to become ice-free, we need to keep coal, gas and oil in the ground.”
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“For the first time we have shown there is sufficient fossil fuel to melt all of Antarctica,” lead study author Ricarda Winkelmann, of the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, told the Guardian.

“This would not happen overnight,” she added, “but the mind-boggling point is that our actions today are changing the face of planet Earth as we know it, and will continue to do so for tens of thousands of years to come. If we want to avoid Antarctica to become ice-free, we need to keep coal, gas and oil in the ground.”

As the Washington Post reports, “[t]he Antarctica question—whether there’s actually enough fossil fuel in the world to raise global temperatures enough to melt the entire ice sheet—surfaced at least as far back as 1979, when the New York Times published an article about the possible consequences of an Antarctic ice sheet collapse.”