MORE NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES: Sediment cores from below the Red - TopicsExpress



          

MORE NEWS FROM THE FRONT LINES: Sediment cores from below the Red Sea bolster two key tenets of climate experts, scientists reported Thursday: 1- A three-foot sea level rise in a century is by no means extreme; 2- Once ice sheets start to melt, that process accelerates for several centuries. - The study is the first to show how long ice-sheet melting can persist. - This happened within 400 yrs for 68% of all 120 cases, and within 1,100 yrs for 95%,” claim the studys authors. “Once triggered, ice-sheet reduction & sea-level rise kept accelerating relentlessly over periods of many centuries. - What does that mean for Earth today? – sea-level rise rates of about 3 ft per century, for many centuries to come...
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:27:08 +0000

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