Showing posts with label Greenland. Show all posts
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Monday, 26 March 2012

Global Warming threshold for Greenland Ice Sheet collapse reduced to 1.6 degrees C


New research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Universidad Complutense de Madrid has lowered the best estimate for the irreversible collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet down to 1.6 °C, making the ice sheet more vulnerable than previously thought to global warming. The previous best estimate was 3.1 °C. As we currently have 0.8 °C of global warming, by the middle of the