Sudden Collapse of West Antartic Ice Sheet
Wild Card's progress: nominated
This Wild Card came from:
Academic/scientific journals
The source of this Wild Card:
Rignot E (2008). "Changes in West Antarctic ice stream dynamics observed with ALOS PALSAR data". Geophys. Res. Lett. 35: L12505. doi:10.1029/2008GL033365
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050+
Wild Card's description
Global sea level rises over 3 meters in weeks. All major coastal metropolitan areas (New York, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, etc.) are submerged and become uninhabitable.
