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Article: 'HIPBOOT' SCIENTISTS TO DELIVER WARNING AT OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY ABOUT RISING SEAS
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- October 28, 2009
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NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 27 -- Old Dominion University issued the following news release:
Two visiting scientists will present evidence at Old Dominion University on Wednesday, Oct. 28, warning that polar ice melting and corresponding sea-level rise this century may exceed the estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
James White, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado, and Robert Bindschadler, a NASA scientist, will speak at 10 a.m. in the first floor auditorium of the E. V. Williams Engineering and Computational Sciences Building. Both scientists are active in research involving rates of melting of polar ice.
The event is free and open to the ...