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Global sea level rise would be markedly higher than expected if the West Antarctic ice sheet collapses, a study from Harvard researchers reveals

Compared to existing estimates, the new calculations show that a total collapse of the ice sheet would lead to about an extra centimeter in sea level rise by the end of the century and an extra meter in the next millennium

The new figures are based on what researchers call a “water expulsion mechanism.” As the ice sheet melts, its weight will decrease, allowing the solid bedrock the sheet rests on to rise and push water outward

Previous research dismissed the water expulsion effect as mostly insignificant, the study states

The study’s researchers learned that the low viscosity of the Earth’s mantle under West Antarctica would make water expulsion much faster

“If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed, the most widely cited estimate of the resulting global mean sea-level rise that would result is 3.2 meters,” said Powell for Harvard’s news service

“No matter what scenario we used for the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, we always found that this extra one meter of global sea level rise took place,” Pan said

Pan emphasized that sea level rise “doesn’t stop when the ice stops melting,” and that scientists should revise models and projections with water expulsion effect in mind

“Every published projection of sea-level rise due to melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that has been based on climate modeling, whether the projection extends to the end of this century or longer into the future, is going to have to be revised upward because of their work,” said Harvard professor Jerry X