Study Reveals Climate Change NIGHTMARE May Now Be Inevitable

If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to collapse, which a recent study warns may be inevitable, New Orleans and South Florida would likely be completely underwater. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

"The most comprehensive effort yet to predict how global warming will affect the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has found there is little humanity can do to stop its ice shelves from melting, which could collapse the sheet and raise sea levels by several feet in the coming centuries.

The report, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Communications, is a full-throated warning that one of the worst sea-level rise scenarios scientists have cautioned about since the 1970s is most likely in progress and that little can be done to stop it. "