with studies from more than 80 co-authors, and was prepared in collaboration with NASA and ESA.

"We think this is the most authoritative estimate to date, and it shows a really clear picture," Shepherd said.

Truth and consequences

The findings have far-reaching implications.

Rising sea levels not only pose a threat to low-lying islands in the Pacific, as we've seen by nations such as in the island nation of Kiribati, but contrary to common perception, it's the north that will feel the pinch with continuing Antarctic ice sheet melt.

Unusual iceberg at Rothera Research Station, Antarctic Peninsula. (Andrew Shepherd, University of Leeds )

Co-author W. Richard Peltier, professor of physics at the University of Toronto, explained that current theory suggests that on long time scales, the ocean surface must stay at a particular statethe sale of the Anderson farm to Bartels, he was the owner, individually and through his family, of more than fifty *367 per cent in value of petitioner's outstanding stock within the meaning of Section 24 of the Revenue Act. On October 11, 1940, the day on which the contract was executed, 354 shares of the stock, a part of the consideration, were transferred to the corporation on its books. Thereafter Bartels owned, individually and through his family, less than fifty per cent in value of the outstanding stock of the corporation. The balance of the consideration was not paid until some time subsequent to October 11, 1940, and the deed to the farm was not executed until December 24, and was delivered to Bartels about January 9,