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Some rare good news for the climate: the more dire estimates of sea level rise from Antarctica may have been somewhat overestimated. My colleague @rtmcswee at @CarbonBrief has all the details: carbonbrief.org/studies-shed-n…
A prior study suggested that Antarctica alone could contribute a meter to sea levels by 2100; this study pushes back. However, this does not suggest sea level rise is not an issue; Antarctica, Greenland, and thermal expansion could still result in >1m by 2100 in the worst case.
As the author @flimsin points out, their new lower estimate for Antarctica is still higher than the estimate in the last (2013) IPCC assessment.
