Study: Earth's polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 15:14
in Earth & Climate
A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approach that reveals the planet's polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting even under moderate global warming scenarios. Link: http://www.princeton.edu