A new study warns that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may need very little additional ocean warming to enter a lasting collapse that would eventually raise global sea levels by more than 4 meters, or about 13 feet.
The finding comes from a modeling paper published in Communications Earth & Environment. The authors analyzed the last 800,000 years of Antarctic ice history and found that West Antarctica is highly sensitive to small temperature changes in the deep ocean near the…
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