“Coastal communities will either have to build around or be abandoned,' the study\'s lead author said.
Rapid melting of West Antarctic ice shelves that serve as a crucial defense against worsening sea level rise may be “unavoidable,” comprehensive new research finds, even under optimistic scenarios of climate crisis mitigation., finds that West Antarctic ice shelves are slated for “widespread increases” in melting, with greenhouse gas-caused ocean warming accelerating the rate of glacier melt in recent decades and into the future.— on land, preventing glaciers from spilling into the sea.
The findings are extremely dire and should spur action to prevent even further melting in other parts of the world, the researchers said.“It appears we may have lost control of the west Antarctic ice shelf melting over the 21st century,” Kaitlin Naughten, the study’s lead author and ocean modeler with the British Antarctic Survey,reporters.
The study’s authors say their analysis, using a sophisticated model looking at several future scenarios of global warming, is to their knowledge the most comprehensive look at ice melting in the West Antarctic yet.
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