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Comprehensive study of West Antarctic Ice Sheet finds collapse may be unavoidable

Por: NBC News Science October 23, 2023

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The most comprehensive effort yet to predict how global warming will affect the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has found there is little humanity can do to stop its ice shelves from melting, which could collapse the sheet and raise sea levels by several feet in the coming centuries. The report, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Communications, is a full-throated warning that one of the worst sea-level rise scenarios scientists have... + full article



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