{"id":218217,"date":"2009-12-01T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/?p=21467"},"modified":"2009-12-01T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:35:34","slug":"global-sea-levels-likely-to-rise-by-about-1-4-meters-by-2100-as-polar-ice-melts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218217","title":{"rendered":"Global Sea Levels Likely to Rise by About 1.4 meters by 2100 as Polar Ice Melts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Booth_and_Mount_Scott\"<\/p>\n

2009Dec1: <\/strong>Global sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) report titled “Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment”. “Warmer water is getting under the edges of the West Antarctic ice sheet and accelerating the flow of ice into the ocean,” said John Turner from the British Antarctic Survey and lead editor of the report (BBC).<\/p>\n

Reference: <\/strong>BBC http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8387137.stm<\/a><\/p>\n

Read SCAR’s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment report <\/strong>http:\/\/www.scar.org\/publications\/occasionals\/acce.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Image Description: <\/strong>Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo by Stan_Shebs, 2001Feb. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Booth_and_Mount_Scott.jpg<\/a> Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2009Dec1: Global sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) report titled “Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment”. “Warmer water is getting under the edges of the West Antarctic ice sheet and accelerating the flow of ice into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}