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Increased West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting ‘unavoidable’ (www.bas.ac.uk)
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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will continue to increase its rate of melting over the rest of the century, no matter how much we reduce fossil fuel use, according to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. A substantial acceleration in ice melting likely cannot now be avoided, which implies that Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise could increase rapidly over the coming decades.

Scientists ran simulations on the UK’s national supercomputer to investigate ocean-driven melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: how much is unavoidable and must be adapted to, and how much melting the international community still has control over through reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Taking into account climate variability like El Niño, they found no significant difference between mid-range emissions scenarios and the most ambitious targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Even under a best-case scenario of 1.5°C global temperature rise, melting will increase three times faster than during the 20th century.

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[–] TBi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It wasn’t unavoidable. It just can’t be avoided now. Your title makes it sound like there is no way we could have prevented this.

[–] oroboros@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, and we could stop making it worse, but we won't :(

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