Thursday, 18 February 2016

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

Jerry Mitrovica has been overturning accepted wisdom for decades. A solid Earth geophysicist at Harvard, he studies the internal structure and processes of the Earth, which has implications for fields from climatology to the timing of human migration and even to the search for life on other planets. Early in his career he and colleagues showed that Earth’s tectonic plates not only move from side to side, creating continental drift, but also up and down.

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