Rob DeConto in Antarctica (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Rob DeConto in Antarctica

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New climate modeling by Robert DeConto at UMass Amherst and David Pollard at Penn State suggests that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent estimate for sea-level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor of two.

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UMass Amherst

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