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Executive Summary
1.Climate Change: a primer
2.What is dangerous climate change?
3.1.Causes of sea-level rise
3.2.Rates of sea-level rise in history
3.3.Ice sheet melting and catastrophic sea-level rise
3.3a.The Greenland Ice Sheet
3.3b.The West Antarctic Ice Sheet
3.3c.Future prospects for coastal environments
4.Gulf Stream shutdown
5.Conclusions
6.Sources and Further Reading
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Issues in Risk Science Dangerous Climate Change: rising sea-levels and ocean circulation changes - Professor Bill McGuire |
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6. Sources and Further Reading Batterby, S. 2006 Deep Trouble. New Scientist. April 15th, 42-46. Bindschadler, R. 2006 Hitting the ice where it hurts. Science 311, 1720-21. Bryden, H. L. et al. 2005 Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 25º C N. Nature 438, 655-57. Church, J. A. & White, N. J. 2006 A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise. Geophysical Research Letters 33. doi: 10.1029/2005GL024826. Domack, E. et al. 2005 Stability of the Larsen-B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene epoch. Nature 436, 681-85. Dowdeswell, J. A. 2006 The Greenland Ice Sheet and global sea-level rise. Science 311, 963-4. Kerr, R. A. 2006 A worrying trend of les ice, higher seas. Science 311, 1698-1701. Luckman, A. et al. 2006 Rapid and synchronous ice-dynamic changes in East Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters 33. doi: 10.1029/2005GL025428. McGuire, W. J. 2004 Hazard and Risk Science Review 2004. Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre.38pp. Overpeck, J.T. et al. 2006 Palaeoclimatic evidence for future ice-sheet instability and rapid sea-level rise. Science 311, 1747-1750. Quadfasel, D. 2005 The Atlantic heat conveyor slows. Nature 438, 565-6. Rignot, E. & Kanagaratnam, P. 2006 Changes in the velocity structure of the Greenland ice sheet. Science 311, 986-990. Schellnhuber, H J. et al (eds). 2006 Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.392pp. Schiermeier, Q. 2006 A sea change. Nature 439, 256-260. Velicogna, I. & Wakr, J. 2006 Measurements of time-variable
gravity show mass loss in Antarctica. Science 311,
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