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The Ice Melt Equation: An Ultimate Geopolitical Calculus
This is a cross-post from Relief Analysis Wire
“Do ice sheets have a linear or exponential melt rate?”
This question may not be echoed frequently around the command centers of NATO, streets of Damascus, or ministries of Beijing. But if researchers James Hansen and Makiko Sato are correct in their inkling, then geopolitics, global security, and humanitarian operations just got extremely problematic in the coming decades. (more…)