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The potential contribution to sea level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have been greatly overestimated, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
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While a total or partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as a result of warming would not raise global sea levels as high as some predict, levels on the US seaboards would rise 25 percent more than the global average and threaten cities like New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, according to a new study.
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The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.
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 | Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica's continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal Geology this month. ...> Full Article |
 | The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program drillship JOIDES Resolution is returning to port in Honolulu this week after a two-month voyage to chart detailed climate history in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The expedition was the first of two back-to-back voyages of a scientific project called Pacific Equatorial Age Transect. It was the first international scientific drilling expedition after the JOIDES Resolution underwent a multiyear transformation into a 21st-century floating science laboratory. ...> Full Article |
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