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Why is future sea level rise still so uncertain?

12 May 2021 by Gavin

Three new papers in the last couple of weeks have each made separate claims about whether sea level rise from the loss of ice in West Antarctica is more or less than you might have thought last month and with more or less certainty. Each of these papers make good points, but anyone looking for coherent picture to emerge from all this work will be disappointed. To understand why, you need to know why sea level rise is such a hard problem in the first place, and appreciate how far we’ve come, but also how far we need to go.

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Filed Under: Arctic and Antarctic, Climate Science, Sea level rise

Forced Responses: May 2021

2 May 2021 by group

A bimonthly open thread on climate solutions. Perhaps unsurprisingly this is always the most contentious comment thread on the site, but please try and be constructive and avoid going off on wild tangents.

Filed Under: Open thread, Solutions

Unforced Variations: May 2021

1 May 2021 by group

This month’s open thread for climate science topics.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread

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