Affiliation:
1. The author is at the Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1692, USA.
Abstract
There has been recent concern over whether shrinkage of ice sheets in Antarctica caused by climate change could lead to rapid global sea-level rise. In his Perspective, Bentley discusses the processes at work in ice-sheet behavior and concludes that, in view of the evidence for ice-sheet stability, catastrophic changes are unlikely in the next century or two.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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