Glaciers and Ice Sheets
The influence of global warming on glaciers and ice sheets may have been detected, but it is frequently very significantly overstated.
There is clear evidence of political narratives being put ahead of scientific research.
Some researchers have tried to bring a more sober perspective to the debate.
Glaciers and ice sheets (rather than sea ice as such) melting is one of the major concerns about global warming and its consequences. Whereas Arctic sea ice cannot contribute to sea level rise, water locked up in the world’s glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica contain enough water to raise sea levels by 70 metres. During the last ice age, so much water was locked up in these sheets that sea level was more than 100 metres lower. Given such a huge range of potential sea level, and such sensitivity of glaciers to global temperatures, it would be foolish not to take these concerns seriously.
However, a number of alarmist and misleading claims about the imminence of glacial and ice sheet collapse, and their sensitivity to anthropogenic warming, have come to prominence in mainstream discussions about climate change in recent years. Ice ages and interglacial episodes were driven by radical changes, which are not necessarily equivalent or comparable to changes caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
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