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Antarctica’s ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise – what happens next is up to us – The Conversation UK
In a new study, we found that a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could collapse at 4°C of global warming.
Images of colossal chunks of ice plunging into the sea accompany almost every news story about climate change. It can often make the problem seem remote, as if the effects of rising global temperatures are playing out elsewhere. But the break-up of the worlds vast reservoirs of frozen water and, in particular, Antarctic ice shelves will have consequences for all of us.
Before we can appreciate how, we need to understand whats driving this process.
Ice shelves are gigantic floating platforms of ice…
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