Some scientists sounded a note of caution about the study. Tiago Segabinazzi Dotto, senior research scientist at the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, said it should be “treated carefully” as it is based on a single model.
I think that quote by itself is easy to misinterpret. Here's the next 2 paragraphs:
"However, its conclusions do agree with previous research in the region, he told the Science Media Center, giving “confidence that this study needs to be taken in consideration for policymakers.”"
"Naughten and her colleagues acknowledged their study has limits — predicting future rates of melting in West Antarctica is very complex and it’s impossible to account for every possible future outcome. But, looking at the range of scenarios, the report authors said they were confident the melting of ice shelves is now unavoidable."
My friend played Russian roulette and died. But that's only a single data point, so maybe I'll give it a go? Or maybe we should just play Pandemic instead. Hmmm... So many options, and literally no way to choose between them!
"West Antarctica is already the continent’s largest contributor to global sea level rise and has enough ice to raise sea levels by an average of 5.3 meters, or more than 17 feet. It’s home to the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday glacier,” because its collapse could raise sea levels by several feet, forcing coastal communities and low-lying island nations to either build around sea level rise or abandon these places"
And it's worth noting, something like 450,000,000 people live within 5m of sea level. This would be absolutely catastrophic for the entire world. A significant contributing factor to European political strife over the past decade has been the arrival of refugees from other regions; and Europe is currently home to about 22 million refugees[0]. It's hard to imagine how wealthier regions will cope with the influx of 450,000,000 refugees (admittedly, many will be staying within their home regions -- but many will likely not).
I saw that, but it doesn't say how much of that is at risk for now or how fast it would happen. The paper has some rates of melting but doesn't translate that into rate of sea level rise.
Lantmäteriet (The Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authority) is a government agency in Sweden that provides information on Swedish geography and property.
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Lantmäteriet was founded in 1628, when Swedish general mathematician Anders Bureus was tasked with systematically mapping out the Swedish Empire and educating new land surveyors under directions from the Swedish King Gustaf II Adolf)
