Another new study on Antarctica’s rapid ice melting has projected that even if the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious emission reduction targets were to be met, the degradation of West Antarctica’s ice shelves could be “unavoidable.”
“It appears we may have lost control of the West Antarctic ice shelf melting over the 21st century,” — Kaitlin Naughten, ocean modeler and the study’s lead author.
Antarctica’s West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is rapidly losing mass due to warming global sea temperatures and is the continent's largest contributor to global sea level rise.
As the WAIS melts, it’s also increasingly exposes Antarctica’s large inland glaciers to melting as well. Scientists project that the melting of Antarctica's largest glacier alone would trigger as much as 10 FEET (!!!) of sea level rise. To put that in context, the global sea level has only risen by 9 INCHES so far over the past century.
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