Antarctica & Greenland Melt Accelerates Sea Level Rise

Published On: July 25, 2020
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Eric Rignot speaks October 7th, 2019 at The Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, gives an deglaciation update status on the state of the cryosphere.

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In this talk from October 2019, Eric Rignot suggests the possibility of 4 meters of sea level rise per century.

  • Just extrapolating based on Antarctic marine glaciers retreating would yield the figure
  • Notes a new model with results in the ballpark
  • Notes the figure is in agreement with past sea level rise estimates

Not mentioned but this comes awfully close to Hansen’s 5 m estimate.

He also notes

  • Antarctica is still only poorly probed, many glaciers lack observation
  • Hotspots of past deglaciation unclear in Antarctica

Though, a new 2020 study (not featured in the talk), suggests contribution from unstable glaciers located in the Wilkes Basin.

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