Ice Sheets' Potential Contributions to Sea-Level Rise (IMAGE)

Boston College

Ice Sheets' Potential Contributions to Sea-Level Rise

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How much warming oceans and melting ice masses would raise sea levels is a crucial question. A team of researchers conclude land-based parts of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet -- the largest projected contributor to sea-level rise -- remained intact during the Pliocene epoch, when carbon dioxide levels were last at their modern value for an extended period of time and global temperature was 2-3 degrees C warner.

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