Technology/Climate Change – Fibre-optics aren’t just for the web. Here’s how they’re helping predict sea level rises (WEF)

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  • Fibre-optic cables are normally associated with the internet, but a new study has shown how they can provide new insights into how ice sheets evolve.
  • The study revealed how the movement of Greenland’s glaciers is far more complicated than previously thought.
  • Ice loss from Greenland has increased sixfold since the 1980s and the melting ice sheet is now the biggest contributor to global sea level rise.
  • Observations using the cables explain why the Greenland ice sheet is losing so much mass and help predict future patterns of ice loss and sea level rise.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/fibre-optics-greenland-ice-melt-glaciers-climate-change/

Marco Emanuele
Marco Emanuele è appassionato di cultura della complessità, cultura della tecnologia e relazioni internazionali. Approfondisce il pensiero di Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. Marco ha insegnato Evoluzione della Democrazia e Totalitarismi, è l’editor di The Global Eye e scrive per The Science of Where Magazine. Marco Emanuele is passionate about complexity culture, technology culture and international relations. He delves into the thought of Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Raimon Panikkar. He has taught Evolution of Democracy and Totalitarianisms. Marco is editor of The Global Eye and writes for The Science of Where Magazine.

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