Saturday, December 1, 2012

The Buzz This Week about Rising Sea Levels

The Buzz This Week about Rising Sea Levels

Those attentive to science news developments--and many members of the general public--will have heard mention this week of rising sea levels. The main reason was publication yesterday by Science magazine of two major research articles, along with a news summary and commentary. The one getting most of the attention is from a team led by Andrew Shepherd of Leeds University in the UK and is called "A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance." A second article, by Ian Joughin and colleagues delves into the dynamics of how the great Greenland and Antarctic sheets melt and disintegrate as warm waters intrude.http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/environment/the-buzz-this-week-about-rising-sea-levels?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumEnergywiseBlog+%28Energywise+-+IEEE+Spectrum%29

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