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Shrinking Antarctic has us skating on thin ice
2015-04-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was tucked away in a footnote. It stated that, of their various future sea-level scenarios, the estimate of the upper limit a 1.1 metre rise by 2100 was actually not the worst case. That is, the $226 billion value of Australian roads, rail, commercial buildings and homes spread over the coastal zone that may be underwater regularly by 2100 could be an underestimate. And they did not know by how much. The potential source of that extra water? A destabilised...
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