…would raise sea-level by more than 50 meters – and eliminate all ice of Antarctica Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 09/14/2015 Burning all of the world’s available fossil-fuel resources would result in the complete melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, a new study published in Science Advances shows. The Antarctic ice masses store water equivalent to more than 50 meters of sea-level rise. The … Read more Burning all fossil energy…
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 05/05/2014 Uncorking East Antarctica yields unstoppable sea-level rise 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. This is shown in a study now published in Nature Climate Change by scientists from the Potsdam Institute for … Read more Toward Unstoppable Sea-Level Rise
As I am from Luxembourg, I well know how small a country it is — and yet, it is a country with all that entails, and so it has a size that is both geological and human, and thus Hannah Devlin’s Times newspaper headline & article strikes a deep chord: Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of Luxembourg by Hannah Devlin An iceberg the size of Luxembourg has split … Read more An Iceberg the Size of Luxembourg