CLIMATE change has always been driven by the sun, the earth’s orbit and plate tectonics, at least that is what many so-called sceptic would argue.
In a new paper in this week’s journal Nature Tim Naish and colleagues conclude that there is a relationship between the past collapse of West Antarctic ice shelf and the earth’s orbit. In the same issue of Nature there is an article by David Pollard who, with Robert De Conto, ran a five-million-year computer simulation of the ice sheet and concluded that if surrounding waters increase by 5 degrees Celsius, it could melt in one thousand years or so.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.