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Genomic evidence for West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse during the Last Interglacial.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Dec 2023
Lau Sally C Y, Wilson Nerida G, Golledge Nicholas R, Naish Tim R, Watts Phillip C, Silva Catarina N S, Cooke Ira R, Allcock A Louise, Mark Felix C, Linse Katrin, Strugnell Jan M
Abstract excerpt
The marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is considered vulnerable to irreversible collapse under future climate trajectories, and its tipping point may lie within the mitigated warming scenarios of 1.5° to 2°C of the United Nations Paris Agreement. Knowledge of ice loss during similarly warm past climates could resolve this uncertainty, including the Last Interglacial when global sea levels were 5 to 10...
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