Bad news for West Antarctica: accelerated ice loss, possibly even a collapse of the ice sheet, can no longer be avoided. And with it a long-term sea level rise of three to five meters. The result comes a study in the journal Nature Climate Change. “It is likely that we have passed the tipping point to avoid instability in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,” says oceanographer Tiago Segabinazzi Dotto of the National Oceanography Center in Southampton, who was not involved in the study.
Climate change: tipping point in Antarctica may have been passed – knowledge
