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Ice sheet’s past reveals warming risk
http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2016/ice-sheet-s-past-reveals-warming-risk[font face=Serif][font size=5]Ice sheet’s past reveals warming risk[/font]
[font size=4]Fresh understanding of West Antarctica has revealed how the region’s ice sheet could become unstable in a warming world.[/font]
[font size=3]Scientists studying the region’s landscape have determined how it reacted to a period of warming after the coldest point of the most recent Ice Age 21,000 years ago.[/font]
[font size=5]Rapid loss[/font]
[font size=3]Researchers found that as the Earth warmed, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet reached a tipping point after which it thinned relatively quickly.
Some 400m of ice was lost in 3,000 years, causing sea levels around the world to increase by up to two metres.
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[font size=4]Fresh understanding of West Antarctica has revealed how the region’s ice sheet could become unstable in a warming world.[/font]
[font size=3]Scientists studying the region’s landscape have determined how it reacted to a period of warming after the coldest point of the most recent Ice Age 21,000 years ago.[/font]
[font size=5]Rapid loss[/font]
[font size=3]Researchers found that as the Earth warmed, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet reached a tipping point after which it thinned relatively quickly.
Some 400m of ice was lost in 3,000 years, causing sea levels around the world to increase by up to two metres.
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