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James Hansen
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Director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University http://csas.earth.columbia.edu | Formerly Director of NASA GISS | jimehansen.substack.com

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This issue is the potential catastrophic consequences, if we let the ice shelves melt to the point that the West Antarctic ice sheet collapses -- increased snowfall is negligible by comparison.
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The ocean warming is causing ice shelves to melt, but, as you know from the ice cubes in your drink, melting of ice in the ocean has no effect on sea level. Small ongoing sea level changes, whichever direction, have modest impact.
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I have not had time to look at data, but such a result is possible temporarily. Accelerated global warming is causing increased snowfall over ice sheets, especially Antarctica -- and this shows up as at least intermittent ice sheet mass gain in gravity satellite data.
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM