Sentences with phrase «between ice shelf collapse»

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By examining past ice shelf collapse and projecting the next century of temperature change onto current ice shelves, Trusel and his fellow researchers found a huge difference between a business - as - usual fossil fuel emission scenario, in which ice melt may increase eight-fold, and a scenario where emissions are stabilized relatively rapidly and ice melt remains relatively linear.

[Response: You are confusing a normal and periodic calving event with the total collapse of an ice shelf — kind of like the difference between a haircut and decapitation.