Keeping temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius is crucial to preserving the 'sleeping giant.'
“Achieving and strengthening our commitments to the Paris Agreement would not only protect the world’s largest ice sheet, but also slow the melting of other major ice sheets such as Greenland and West Antarctica, which are more vulnerable to global warming,” she added.mid-Pliocene era
, a part of the ice sheet collapsed and helped raise sea levels by several feet. Temperatures during this era were about 3 to 6 degrees warmer than they are today. There is also evidence that part of the ice sheet shifted more than 400 miles inland approximately 400,000 years ago because of the warming.
According to the researchers in the study, if greenhouse gas emissions are scaled back and temperatures only slightly rise, the EAIS will likely not contribute to sea level rise within the 21st century. However, sea levels will still continue to increase due to losses from other ice sheets in
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