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Abstract
From the executive summary:
Earth’s two large ice sheets, in Antarctica and Greenland, are currently deteriorating and will continue to deteriorate even under the most optimistic greenhouse-gas emissions scenarios. They are a major contributor to sea-level rise and the subsequent damage to natural and human systems. We cannot stop sea-level rise, but we may be able to slow it while humanity does the necessary shift away from carbon-based energy systems.
Earth’s two large ice sheets, in Antarctica and Greenland, are currently deteriorating and will continue to deteriorate even under the most optimistic greenhouse-gas emissions scenarios. They are a major contributor to sea-level rise and the subsequent damage to natural and human systems. We cannot stop sea-level rise, but we may be able to slow it while humanity does the necessary shift away from carbon-based energy systems.