New Study Reveals Urgency of Sea Level Rise due to Melting Polar Ice Sheets

by Duane Nichols on April 2, 2016

The greenhouse gas effects are very real

Research Study Raises New Concern About Global Warming

From an NPR Broadcast, “Here And Now,” WBUR, Boston, March 31, 2016

Photo: Ice floats on the surface of the sea in the western Antarctic peninsula, on March 05, 2016.

A study published in Nature says global warming could disintegrate the vast Antarctic ice sheet sooner than originally thought. That would mean a 3-foot sea level rise by the year 2100 and a 50-foot rise by the year 2500, something that would endanger coastal cities. Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Richard Alley, a professor at Pennsylvania State University and one of the study’s co-authors.

Guest: Richard Alley, professor in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State.

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