• DOI:10.1007/S10584-008-9448-3
Corpus ID: 154732005

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={D. Vaughan},
  journal={Climatic Change},
  year={2008},
  volume={91},
  pages={65-79}
}

• D. Vaughan
• Published 2008
• Geology
• Climatic Change

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… Expand