Published in Physics World, 14 May 2009
Sea–level rises resulting from the collapse of the unstable western Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) under climate change could be half the generally accepted value, according to researchers from the UK and the Netherlands.
Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, together with colleagues from the Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems and the Delft University of Technology, has used updated survey data and theory to calculate that the maximum contribution to sea levels would be about 3 m, and not 5 to 6 m as had been assumed. However, the calculations suggest that any sea–level rise would be 25% worse along the Pacific and Atlantic seaboards of the US. […]
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