Up to five metres of sea-level rise is held in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. But, it's a problem for our grandchildren, so...
"It looks like we've lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. If we wanted to preserve it in its historical state, we would have needed action on #ClimateChange decades ago."
Also, the lead author is a (brilliant) former undergraduate research assistant I worked with at #UVic.
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-west-antarctic-ice-sheet-unavoidable.html
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