Research Professor John C. Moore from the Arctic Centre at the Universit y of Lapland and Beijing Normal University will have an open and streamed l ecture on how we could slow sea-level rise by stabilizing the ice sheets. T he lecture is in English and it will take place on United Nations Day on 24 th October at 4 PM (EET) at Arktikum in Rovaniemi.
Sea level rise wil l happen even if we stop using fossil fuels in the next few decades. Global ly they are expected to rise by a metre this century costing tens of billio ns euro per year in coastal protection and forcing relocation of hundreds o f millions of people and loss of many wetland ecosystems. Much of this rise is unavoidable even by cooling the climate because of ice sheet instabilit ies especially in Antarctica.
The research, led by John C. Moore, sho w that we could stabilize the ice sheets by modifying the way they slide ov er their beds, or by increasing the buttressing that resists them as they f loat across the Antarctic coastline. This would mean a series of huge engin eering projects that would be massively challenging, but potentially far ea sier than dealing with a collapsing ice sheet and rapidly rising global sea levels. What will be presented sounds fantastical, but is under serious di scussion in the scientific community. It is not a substitute for reducing g reenhouse gas emission, rather a potential solution for one symptom of warm ing, and one which will not work indefinitely.
24.10.2018 16:00–17:00
(EET+1)
Arktikum, Polarium-sali
Pohjoisranta 4
96200 Rovani
emi
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