West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse – the fall and rise of a paradigm
@article{Vaughan2008WestAI, title={West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse – the fall and rise of a paradigm}, author={David G. Vaughan}, journal={Climatic Change}, year={2008}, volume={91}, pages={65-79} }
It is now almost 30 years since John Mercer (1978) first presented the idea that climate change could eventually cause a rapid deglaciation, or “collapse,” of a large part of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS), raising world sea levels by 5 m and causing untold economic and social impacts. This idea, apparently simple and scientifically plausible, created a vision of the future, sufficiently alarming that it became a paradigm for a generation of researchers and provided an icon for the green…
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