Source: ThreeNews / Stuff
A major international research mission is heading into its third and most ambitious season on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, as scientists attempt to uncover how 2°C of global warming could transform sea levels around the world.
The SWAIS2C (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C) project is a collaboration involving 10 countries - including New Zealand. Their goal is to drill through more than 500 metres of ice at Crary Ice Rise, about 700 kilometres from Scott Base, and retrieve a 200-metre sediment core that could reveal how Antarctic ice responded in past warm periods.
