Simulations show that melting of the Antarctic ice sheet in response to climate change could raise the global sea level by up to 3 metres by the year 2300 and continue for thousands of years thereafter. See Letter p.421
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Robel, A. The long future of Antarctic melting. Nature 526, 327–328 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/526327a
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