Future Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice Sheets May Be Substantially Greater Estimated

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Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, according to new research from the University of Bristol…

The study, published January 6 in Nature Climate Change, is the first of its kind on ice sheet melting to use structured expert elicitation (EE) together with an approach which mathematically pools experts’ opinions. EE is already used in a number of other scientific fields such as forecasting volcanic eruptions…

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Original Study: “An expert judgement assessment of future sea level rise from the ice sheets,” Nature Climate Change

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