[HN Gopher] Sea levels might rise much faster than thought, Gree...
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       Sea levels might rise much faster than thought, Greenland data
       suggest
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-11-12 18:56 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | david_allison wrote:
       | Predicted at least as far back as 2007
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       | > Despite these early warnings about likely future nonlinear
       | rapid response, IPCC continues, at least implicitly, to assume a
       | linear response to BAU [business-as-usual: 3degC] forcings. Yet
       | BAU forcings exceed by far any forcings in recent palaeoclimate
       | history.
       | 
       | > Part of the explanation for the inconsistency between
       | palaeoclimate data and IPCC projections lies in the fact that
       | existing ice sheet models are missing realistic (if any)
       | representation of the physics of ice streams and icequakes,
       | processes that are needed to obtain realistic nonlinear
       | behaviour.
       | 
       | Hansen James, Sato Makiko, Kharecha Pushker, Russell Gary, Lea
       | David W and Siddall Mark 2007 Climate change and trace gases
       | Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.3651925-1954
       | http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2007.2052
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       | [PDF]
       | https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Hansen_ha02210k.pd...
        
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