US EditionScientists Say Next Few Years Vital to Securing the Future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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Immediate actions to reduce emissions can still prevent a collapse of the West Antarctica ice sheet and a devastating four-metre rise in sea level globally.
Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss
Ice loss from Antarctica’s vast freshwater reservoir could threaten coastal communities and the global economy if the ice volume decreases by just a few percent. Observed changes in mass balance are limited to ~40 years, and are difficult to interpret in the context of an ice sheet with response time scales reaching centuries to millennia. To gain a much longer-term perspective, here we combine transient and equilibrium Parallel Ice Sheet Model…
Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered by very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play out over hundreds of years, according to a study now published in Communications Earth & Environment, co-authored by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). However, the authors emphasize that immediate actions to reduce emissions could still avoid a cat…
A new international study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment reveals that the ice sheet of Western Antarctica could be on the verge of irreversible collapse,...
The collapse of the ice cap of Western Antarctica could be triggered by very little ocean warming above these days, leading to four devastating meters of global sea level rise to play for hundreds of years, according to a study now published in Earth Communications & Environment, co-written by the Potsdam [...]
A collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet could already be triggered at low ocean warming beyond present temperatures and
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