The prescience of paleoclimatology and the future of the Antarctic ice sheet

Eric J Steig; Peter D Neff

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05001-1

The prescience of paleoclimatology and the future of the Antarctic ice sheet

Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 16;9(1):2730. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05001-1.

Authors

Eric J Steig¹, Peter D Neff²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Box 351310, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. steig@uw.edu.
² Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Box 351310, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.

Abstract

The emerging view that the West Antarctic ice sheet is in the early stage of collapse owes as much to paleoclimatology as to contemporary observations.