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  1. May 2017
    1. In the scientists’ worst-case computer simulations, continued global warming will cause the Ross Ice Shelf to weaken and collapse starting as early as the middle of this century.

      This collapse in the referenced work is initiated by strong surface melting causing ice shelf hydrofracture and then marine ice cliff instability. Other recent studies looking at the evolution of surface melt in Antarctica find far more modest (likely insignificant) increases in surface melt over this century, particularly over the Ross ice shelf.