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If human societies don’t sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland’s rate of ice loss this century is likely to greatly outpace that of any century over the past 12,000 years, a new ice sheet modeling study concludes. Published in Nature, the research used a state-of-the-art ice sheet model to simulate changes to the southwestern sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where changes in the rates of ice loss tend to correspond tightly with changes across the entire ice sheet. Read more:

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The collaborative project brought together climate modelers, ice core scientists, remote sensing experts and paleoclimate researchers at multiple institutions. The research was funded largely by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Study authors: Jason P. Briner, Alia J. Lesnek, Elizabeth K. Thomas,
Allison A. Cluett and Beata Csatho from the University at Buffalo (UB); Joshua K. Cuzzone
from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL); Jessica A. Badgeley, Eric J. Steig and Gregory J. Hakim from the University of
Washington; Nicolás E. Young and Joerg Schaefer from Columbia University’s Lamont
Doherty Earth Observatory; Mathieu Morlighem from UCI; Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel and
Eric Larour from JPL; Jesse V. Johnson and Jacob Downs from the University of
Montana; Estelle Allan and Anne de Vernal from the Université du Québec à Montréal;
Ole Bennike from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland; and Sophie
Nowicki from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, who joined UB’s faculty in fall
2020.

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