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SUMMARY:Climate change and the polar ice sheets - Andy Shepherd\, Universi
 ty of Edinburgh
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CONTACT:Deb Shoosmith
DESCRIPTION:Earth is a remarkable planet.  Its temperature is so delicatel
 y balanced that water is abundant in both liquid and solid forms.  But as 
 our climate warms\, the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland will surely
  respond.  After more than a century of polar exploration\, the past decad
 e of satellite measurements has painted an altogether new picture of how E
 arth's ice sheets are changing.  We know now that accelerating glaciers in
  both continents are raising sea levels faster than the 2007 report of the
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected.  This seminar summar
 ises the very recent achievements in our understanding of the polar ice sh
 eets made possible by a constellation of Earth observing satellites.
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, conference room
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