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The world is<\/span> no longer safe for frozen H2O.<\/p>\n

New research published in Science<\/em><\/a> on Thursday shows that the conditions that have kept ice, frozen soil, and snow stable are slipping away due to the burning of fossil fuels\u2014and the implications are grave for the entire globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The climate of the past 12,000 or so years has been remarkably steady. That\u2019s allowed for all kinds of wonderful things to happen, like human civilization flourishing. But rising temperatures are pushing the climate outside that envelope<\/a>, and the new research looks at what the team behind the new findings has called the \u201csafe operating space\u201d for the icy, snowy landscape known as the cryosphere.<\/p>\n

The scientists looked at changes to polar sea and land ice, mountain glaciers, permafrost, and snow cover over the past 12 millennia to analyze conditions that have allowed both civilization and other ecosystems to thrive. They then identified boundaries on those conditions that, if crossed, would upend the stability and safety humans have enjoyed for millennia.<\/p>\n

The results show an \u201caccelerating and partly irreversible loss of cryospheric integrity.\u201d Arctic and Antarctic sea ice have both fallen outside the safe operating threshold, as have snow cover and the area of permafrost\u2014frozen soil laden with carbon. While land ice hasn\u2019t yet fallen out of its safe space, it\u2019s on the brink. And because of warming that\u2019s already been locked into the climate system, it\u2019s likely to also fall outside the threshold in the coming centuries.<\/p>\n

While it may feel like the Antarctic ice sheet or permafrost covering Alaska are distant concerns, they\u2019re anything but. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which a growing body of evidence shows is nearing the brink of irreversible decline<\/a>, has enough ice to raise sea levels by 11 feet (3 meters). Permafrost, meanwhile, holds trillions of tons of carbon dioxide. Any degradation means that CO2, as well as even more potent methane, could end up in the atmosphere<\/a>, accelerating global warming even further. Other examples of major risks abound, including how melting Greenland land ice could slow down or even collapse the ocean conveyor belt<\/a> that helps keep Europe temperate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe consequences of a changing cryosphere extend beyond regions where ice and snow are disappearing,\u201d says Albert Nostr\u00f6m, a climate researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Center who co-authored the new paper.<\/p>\n

Dipping outside the safe operating space doesn\u2019t mean that the world will see 11 feet of sea level rise in the next year, a trillion-ton CO2 eruption, or a Day After Tomorrow<\/em> scenario. But it does mean that the odds of crossing dangerous tipping points are rising.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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