Just as glaciers sped up when Larsen B disintegrated, an ice sheet accelerates if warm ocean currents thin an ice shelf into which the ice sheet flows.

• 正如拉森B冰棚破裂后加速流动的冰河，如果温暖的海流把冰棚变薄了，滑向那片冰棚的冰原速度也会加快。