If we decide to keep on the track we're on now and just keep on warming, because of greenhouse gas pollution, then we could easily cook those ice sheets more rapidly.
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We're saying that this could come much faster. The ice sheets are more vulnerable to climate warming than we had thought. The only good news I see is that we know about it in advance and can do something about it if we want.Jonathan Overpeck
As Hurricane Katrina pointed out, we only need a meter about 3.2 feet of sea-level rise to make much of New Orleans unlivable. The same goes for a number of coastal areas.
Jonathan Overpeck
The results suggest the threshold is close to the end of this century, and it could come sooner. The Arctic is already warming much faster than we thought it would. To think we're not going to get 4 to 5 degrees warmer in another 50 years is wishful thinking.
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After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meteror three feetper one hundred years.
Jonathan Overpeck
A lot of the stories you read make it sound like there's uncertainty. There's not uncertainty.
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