Antarctica's Melting Glaciers Less Severe

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Global sea levels WON'T rise to worst case predictions, study argues

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The UN 's prediction that the melting of Antarctica 's 'Doomsday' glaciers could alone raise global sea levels two feet before the year 2100 has shaped global climate policy since at least 2016 .

But three new, more sophisticated climate models, produced with the backing of the National Science Foundation , now call this UN glacier model 'extreme' and 'unlikely' More realistic new scenarios, revealed by these new 'ice melt' simulations, predict the glaciers are not likely to break apart in the feared chain-reaction.

The new study simulated the rate at which the Doomsday Glacier thinned and the speed at which is would 'calve' portions of the glacier and slide those new icebergs into the sea.

But, ultimately, it found that a lost ice shelf would not lead the remaining glacier to retreat inland, nor trigger a runaway breakdown.

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