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Mitigation methods |
Choosing the future of Antarctica (rintoul 2018) Drain the bed Geoengineering (Moore et al 2018) Remove or freeze water at base Support ice shelves with artificial islands 10m been in front of ice shelf basewhy these necessity |
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Why do this |
634 million live 10m above SL 0.5-5% of the worlds population will be flooded each year after 2100 Without coastal protection the global cost amazes could reach US$50 trillion a year |
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Why prediction hard |
Stress at base and Seward margin difficult to predict behaviour so there is great uncertainty (Vaughan 2007) |
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Evidence for climates role |
Recent warming glaciers nine surging as gone from cold to warm falling out of balance Svalbard C20th many glaciers surges in unison |
