Past Antarctic Warming Raised Global Sea Levels

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 04:42 in Earth & Climate

Geoscientists say a small rise in past ocean temperature undercut and melted Antarctic ice, raising global sea levels many feet. New data from modeling and sediment cores converge to show the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet can retreat to near complete collapse much more rapidly than believed possible.

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