A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level

Category : Climate Change | Location : International  | Posted on 2024-02-26 10:07:07

A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are increasingly being supercharged by a warming climate. But despite being short-term events they can also have a much longer-term effect on the world’s largest ice sheets and may even lead to tipping points being crossed in the polar regions.