Thwaites is putting about 50 billion tons of ice into the water a year.

斯韦茨冰川每向水中放入大约500亿吨冰。

Thwaites " looks different from other ice shelves, " Wahlin said.

瓦林说，斯韦茨冰川" 看起来与其他冰架不同" 。

University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos said from the McMurdo land station last month that the conditions driving Thwaites' ice loss are increasing.

科罗拉多大学冰川科学家泰德·斯坎博斯上个在麦默多陆地站表示，导致斯韦茨冰川融化的条件正在增加。

Wahlin said " Thwaites is the main reason I would say that we have so large an uncertainty in the projections of future sea level rise" .

" 我们对未来海平面上升的预测存在如此大的不确定性，我想说主要原因在思韦茨冰川身上。"

Thwaites said fossil fuel industry aid " reached an all-time high last year, over $1 trillion, driven by the war in Ukraine and the resulting energy price spikes."

斯韦茨说，兰战争及其导致的能源价格飙升的影响，去化石燃料行业的援助金额“达到了历史最高水平，超过了1万亿美元”。

Tulaczyk and others caution that glacial engineering would never be a silver bullet. Even if it saves Thwaites or other glaciers in Antarctica, it may not preserve glaciers in the Arctic, where temperatures are warmer.

图拉兹和其他人提醒说，冰川工程绝非万能之策。即便它能拯救思韦茨冰川或其他南极冰川，也可能无法保护北极的冰川，因为那里的气温更高。

If Thwaites were to collapse, it would release enough ice to trigger disastrous sea-level rise across the globe. And even if humans stop releasing climate-warming gases in the near future, this still might not prevent a collapse.

如果思韦茨冰川发生崩塌，它将释放出足够的冰量，引发全球范围内的灾难性海平面上升。即便人类在不久的将来停止排放导致气候变暖的气体，这仍可能无法阻止冰川的崩塌。