Sentences with phrase «ice sheet collapse timescales»

But it appears far more likely that a better understanding of these processes will act to revised our estimates of ice sheet collapse timescales downward, rather than upward.

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The Royal Society report includes references to Clark et al, 2016 in Nature Climate Change, suggesting the final sea level rise on millennia timescale caused by anthropogenic climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 metres.

Timescales of methane seepage on the Norwegian margin following collapse of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet.

Conclusion The best available climate - change science plainly tells us that «We don't * WE DO * have to worry about the genuinely dangerous scenarios (e.g. ice sheet collapse, AMOC collapse) on timescales of [more than] a century.»