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Melting East Antarctica ice could mean thousands of years of unstoppable sea level rises

2014-05-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Science 2.0: The melting of a rather small ice volume on East Antarctica's shore could trigger a persistent ice discharge into the ocean, resulting in unstoppable sea-level rise for thousands of years to come, according to computer simulations of the Antarctic ice flow by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). They detail their estimates in Nature Climate Change. "East Antarctica's Wilkes Basin is like a bottle on a slant," says lead-author Matthias Mengel, "once uncorked, it...

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