THE AUSTRALIAN
"ANTARCTIC ice shelves are showing no sign of climate change, six years of unique research have shown.
Scientists from Western Australia's Curtin University of Technology are using acoustic sensors developed to support the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to listen for the sound of icebergs breaking away from the giant ice sheets of the south pole.
"More than six years of observation has not revealed any significant climatic trends," CUT associate professor Alexander Gavrilov said yesterday"
Earth's coastlines after sea-level rise, 4000 AD
VastaaPoistaEven if we could freeze-frame the atmosphere as it is today, sea levels would still rise by 25 metres, says the latest study into the effects of climate change on melting ice sheets.
Eelco Rohling of the UK National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton and colleagues reconstructed sea level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years and compared this to global climate and carbon dioxide levels data for the same period. They found a tight coupling between carbon dioxide and sea level rise.
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