17 August 2021
Melting Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise
The Antarctic is melting rapidly, resulting in a sea-level rise that will depend on the extent of global warming. Natalya Gomez (McGill U.), Canada Research Chair in Geodynamics of Ice Sheet-Sea Level Interactions and member of Québec-Océan, and her colleagues have attempted to model this warming on Antarctic ice and sea-level rise, following the different scenarios described by the Paris Agreement. Their recent study, published in the journal Nature, shows that with a warming of 2°C or less, the loss of Antarctic ice will contribute to a global sea rise of 6 to 11 cm by 2100...
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