Phys.org July 11, 2024 According to an international team of researchers (USA – University of Chicago, NASA Goddard Institute, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Germany, Finland) earth’s two large ice sheets, in Antarctica and Greenland are the major contributor to sea-level rise and the subsequent damage to natural and human systems. They are currently deteriorating and will continue to deteriorate even under the most optimistic greenhouse-gas emissions scenarios. Although they cannot be stopped, it may be possible to slow the deterioration. Over the last four decades, scientific research on ice-sheet deterioration and sea-level rise has been focused on two essential questions: […]
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Scientists still don’t know how far melting in Antarctica will go, or the sea level rise it will unleash
Phys.org September 21, 2021 Ice loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets was the largest contributor to sea level rise in recent decades. Adapting to the projected sea level rise that will have widespread effects in Australia and around the world due to ice sheet melt are so wide that developing ways for societies to adapt will be incredibly expensive and difficult. An international scientific collaboration known as the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP6) is quantifying how much Antarctic ice sheets will contribute to sea level rise has identified basal melt, the melting of ice shelves from underneath, […]