Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change

CR Stokes, NJ Abram, MJ Bentley, TL Edwards… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains the vast majority of Earth's glacier ice (about
52 metres sea-level equivalent), but is often viewed as less vulnerable to global warming …

[HTML][HTML] Coastal adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise

G Griggs, BG Reguero - Water, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The Earth's climate is changing; ice sheets and glaciers are melting and coastal hazards
and sea level are rising in response. With a total population of over 300 million people …

Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tip** points

DI Armstrong McKay, A Staal, JF Abrams… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Climate tip** points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-
perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021‏ - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

RM DeConto, D Pollard, RB Alley, I Velicogna… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean warming in the twenty-first century to
less than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and to promote further efforts to limit …

Antarctic calving loss rivals ice-shelf thinning

CA Greene, AS Gardner, NJ Schlegel, AD Fraser - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Antarctica's ice shelves help to control the flow of glacial ice as it drains into the ocean,
meaning that the rate of global sea-level rise is subject to the structural integrity of these …

Sea-level rise projections for Sweden based on the new IPCC special report: The ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

M Hieronymus, O Kalén - Ambio, 2020‏ - Springer
New sea-level rise projections for Sweden are presented. Compared to earlier projections,
we have here, more carefully, taken regional variations in sea-level rise into consideration …

Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels

C Tebaldi, R Ranasinghe, M Vousdoukas… - Nature Climate …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The Paris agreement focused global climate mitigation policy on limiting global warming to
1.5 or 2° C above pre-industrial levels. Consequently, projections of hazards and risk are …

[HTML][HTML] Many risky feedback loops amplify the need for climate action

WJ Ripple, C Wolf, TM Lenton, JW Gregg, SM Natali… - One Earth, 2023‏ - cell.com
Many feedback loops significantly increase warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
However, not all of these feedbacks are fully accounted for in climate models. Thus …

Polar regions

MP Meredith, M Sommerkorn… - The ocean and …, 2019‏ - research.monash.edu
This chapter assesses the state of physical, biological and social knowledge concerning the
Arctic and Antarctic ocean and cryosphere, how they are affected by climate change, and …