Presentation: Come Ice or High Water: How Will Global Warming Affect Antarctic Ice Sheets and Sea Levels?

• Main Authors: Environmental Science Institute, Vaughan, David
• Format: Course Material
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Science Institute 2007
• Subjects: STEM; Science; Antarctica; ice sheets; glaciers; Global Warming; Antarctic; Greenland; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/25336

In parts of Antarctica, rates of measured climate warming are the highest anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere – in another part, there has been a cooling. How are we to interpret such a complex pattern of climate change, and what are the implications for the future of the Last Continent? The latest report by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, identifies the response of the great ice sheet of Antarctica and Greenland to climate change is the greatest uncertainty in projections of sea-level rise. Why, when so much other climate science seems to be converging, is there still so much uncertainty in this particular part of the puzzle? In a wide ranging talk covering many aspects of climate change and its significance to Antarctica and the rest of the Planet, David Vaughan will try to cast some light on these issues, which may turn not to be as simple as the sound bites would lead us to believe. (Taken from the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research) Environmental Science Institute