Sentences with phrase «ice sheet models double»

Antarctic ice sheet models double the sea - level rise expected this century if global emissions of heat - trapping pollution remain high.

Not exact matches

«Sea - level rise could nearly double over earlier estimates in next 100 years: Researchers model effects of melting Antarctic ice sheets.»

But what the GSL now says is that geological evidence from palaeoclimatology (studies of past climate change) suggests that if longer - term factors are taken into account, such as the decay of large ice sheets, the Earth's sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 could itself be double that predicted by most climate models.

But in Bamber's second calculation the relatively sophisticated energy balance model, which he believes better represents ice sheet behaviour, gave a threshold of 8 degrees for irreversible melting of Greenland — double the previously published threshold.

But in Bamber's second calculation the relatively sophisticated energy balance model, which he believes better represents ice sheet behaviour, gave a threshold of 8 degrees for irreversible melting of Greenland - double the previously published threshold.

Geological evidence from studies of past climate change now suggests that if longer term factors are taken into account, such as the decay of large ice sheets and the operation of the full carbon cycle, the sensitivity of the Earth to a doubling of CO2 could be double that predicted by most climate models.