Ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica predicted to bring more frequent extreme weather
- Written by Nick Golledge, Associate Professor of Glaciology, Victoria University of Wellington
A new climate model combines data on ice loss from both polar regions for the first time.Mark Brandon, CC BY-ND
Last week, rivers froze over in Chicago when it got colder than at the North Pole. At the same time, temperatures hit 47℃ in Adelaide during the peak of a heatwave.
Such extreme and unpredictable weather is likely to get worse as ice...
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