After accounting for puddles, SSP3-7.0 scenarios show more than 10% growth in Antarctic melting by 2100
Posted by Shoddy-Childhood-511@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Linked: Expansion of Antarctic surface melt through the 21st century. Yaowen Zheng, Nicholas R. Golledge, Alexandra Gossart & Shoujuan Shu. Nature Communications (2026)
Aside: Although the journal article summery uses plane language, the climate (denial?) sub linked this oil & gas article that uses excessively opaque language. Although not great, it might provide a backup if Nature hides the article, although afaik Nature is unlikely to hide the abstract.
Magnesium4YourHead@reddit
"After accounting for puddles" was just not a line I excepted to see today.
NyriasNeo@reddit
Lol .. 2100. It is well known that people are myopic. Few looks beyond next week's food and next month's rent. Talking about 2100 is a sure way to make people care LESS, not more about climate change.
BTW, no lay person is going to read Nature. If you want some climate action, learn some marketing but you are already way behind the competition. "Drill baby drill" won, you know.
CorvidCorbeau@reddit
Maybe my brain is just fried from too much time spent reading about how severe climate change is, but 10% in 74 years seems almost too small.
Shoddy-Childhood-511@reddit (OP)
At least 10% but how much depends upon the scenario.
TernarySquare0123@reddit
Sea level rise has some more immediate consequences like saltwater intrusion. Which can ruin agricultural land. Not the most significant threat but often underestimated.
Shoddy-Childhood-511@reddit (OP)
Rice suffers badly from this I guess
bipolarearthovershot@reddit
2100 is a great number for me to not care about the article
IntoTheCommonestAsh@reddit
Aaaand that's how climate change keeps getting kicked down the hall.
Odd_Awareness1444@reddit
2050 is more believable.
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This journal article discusses how much more quickly Antarctic ice shall melt because of the lower albedo of surface puddles vs ice, which shall then cause more sea level rise. Although slow, sea level rise has already ended or moved many cities throughout ancient history.
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Shoddy-Childhood-511@reddit (OP)
This journal article discusses how much more quickly Antarctic ice shall melt because of the lower albedo of surface puddles vs ice, which shall then cause more sea level rise. Although slow, sea level rise has already ended or moved many cities throughout ancient history.