'Sea level change is going be a big awakening for Australia': Antarctic scientist sounds the alarm

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'Sea level change is going be a big awakening for Australia': Antarctic scientist sounds the alarm
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Australia's Antarctic explorers often say your first expedition is for the excitement, your second trip is for the money. The third time you go? You must be crazy.

Australia's Antarctic explorers often say your first expedition is for the excitement, your second trip is for the money.How hot is too hot? Calls for workplace overhaul ahead of El Niño summerThirty-five years later, he's the leader of Australia's Antarctic Climate Program with the government-run Australian Antarctic Division.And with alarming news coming out of Antarctica on a weekly basis, he has a warning backed up by his decades of experience.

But he predicts Antarctica will take over as the driver of sea level change in the next decades, as more Antarctic ice melts with every passing year. He said that even if sea levels only change by a metre, the price tag for the world to repair its infrastructure could run into the trillions of dollars.

These are the year-round homes of the Australian Antarctic Division, which Klekociuk has made the icy trek to and from over the years.

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