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SCIENCE
Volume 311, Issue 5768, Pages 1747-1750Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115159
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- Directorate For Geosciences [0814241] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [0814241] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Sea-level rise from melting of polar ice sheets is one of the largest potential threats of future climate change. Polar warming by the year 2100 may reach levels similar to those of 130,000 to 127,000 years ago that were associated with sea levels several meters above modern levels; both the Greenland Ice Sheet and portions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet may be vulnerable. The record of past ice-sheet melting indicates that the rate of future melting and related sea-level rise could be faster than widely thought.
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