However, in a case such
as ice sheet instability and sea level rise, excessive caution also holds dangers.
Not exact matches
The first of these pathways, marine
ice sheet instability, has been studied for decades, but the second, marine
ice cliff
instability, has only recently been considered
as an important contributor to future sea level change.
A recent high - profile article stirred debate about the threat of a process known
as marine
ice -
sheet instability in the Antarctic.
The authors herald this
as the start of marine
ice sheet instability.
As stated by the IPCC - workshop report on sea level rise and
ice sheet instabilities from June 2010: «[T] he millennial timescale is relevant to the mitigative policy deliberations, including ethical considerations.»
In Andrew Revkin's article today entitled «In Greenland,
Ice and Instability», there is the quote: Eric Rignot, a longtime student of ice sheets at both poles for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said he hoped the public and policymakers did not interpret uncertainty in the 21st - century forecast as reason for complacency on the need to limit risks by cutting emissio
Ice and
Instability», there is the quote: Eric Rignot, a longtime student of
ice sheets at both poles for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said he hoped the public and policymakers did not interpret uncertainty in the 21st - century forecast as reason for complacency on the need to limit risks by cutting emissio
ice sheets at both poles for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said he hoped the public and policymakers did not interpret uncertainty in the 21st - century forecast
as reason for complacency on the need to limit risks by cutting emissions.
The latter set of feedbacks, which include those due to
ice sheet instability and the carbon cycle, are normally refered to
as «slow feedbacks.»
«Variation in Solar Insolation to the South Polar Region
as a Trigger Which Induces
Instability in the Antarctic
Ice Sheet.»
... Most projections for the Antarctic
Ice Sheet since IPCC AR5 limit the sea - level contribution as a result of dynamic discharge and the potential onset of the marine ice sheet instability to 0.3 m by the end of this centu
Ice Sheet since IPCC AR5 limit the sea - level contribution as a result of dynamic discharge and the potential onset of the marine ice sheet instability to 0.3 m by the end of this cen
Sheet since IPCC AR5 limit the sea - level contribution
as a result of dynamic discharge and the potential onset of the marine
ice sheet instability to 0.3 m by the end of this centu
ice sheet instability to 0.3 m by the end of this cen
sheet instability to 0.3 m by the end of this century.
They did not account for modern observations in calibrating marine
ice -
sheet instability, or probe rates of
ice - cliff collapse
as fast
as the fastest currently seen in Greenland.