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If We Burn All The World's Fossil Fuels, We'll Melt Antarctica & Flood The Earth.

If We Burn All The World's Fossil Fuels, We'll Melt Antarctica & Flood The Earth.

by The Daily Eye Team September 12 2015, 4:52 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 25 secs

"We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet," the authors write in a study published today in Science Advances. Yes, that's eliminate, as in, entirely. "With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC)"?the total amount worldwide?"Antarctica is projected to become almost ice-free with an average contribution to sea-level rise exceeding 3 meter per century during the first millennium." Read More?at www.motherboard.vice.com




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