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Greenland study
Sea-level rise could be double IPCC projections |
Joseph Romm |
12 Feb 2008 |
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| Last year, Nature Geoscience and Science (PDF) published major articles suggesting that the consensus projection for sea-level rise this century was far too low -- and could be as high as five feet. Now the Journal of Glaciology joins in with a remarkable analysis, 'Intermittent thinning of Jakobshavn Isbrę, West Greenland, since the Little Ice Age' (PDF). The lead author, Beata Csatho from the University of Buffalo, explains implications of this work for the traditi ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, IPCC, oceans (all these topics) |
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