Cutting greenhouse gas emissions now may limit how much ice Antarctica loses this century and reduce the rise in seas facing coastal communities, according to findings from a new study.
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions now may limit how much ice Antarctica loses this century and reduce the rise in seas facing coastal communities, according to findings from a new study.
The research, reported in Nature Geoscience by an international team of scientists, including Rutgers climate scientist Robert Kopp, provides evidence that decisions about emissions today can influence how much water Antarctica adds to the oceans by 2100.
The team found at least an 89% probability that the most ambitious low emission goal that fit the objectives of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change adopted in 2015, would result in less Antarctic ice loss by the end of the century than very high emissions.
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