this is something that the climate models predict shouldn't happen for anotother 60 years, till thehe end of the 21st century. and indeed nature seems to be on a course that's faster, that's rere dramatitic than what the climatate modelsls predict.e are already y observing g and measuring a decrease in the amount of iice in the greenland ice sheet and the west antarctic ice sheet. now, the climate models have predicted that we shouldn't see that for many decades to come. and a key distinction here is if it's a land ice sheet, a land-based ice sheet, then when it melts it actually contributes to global sea level rise. that's not the case for sea ice, but it is the case for the continental ice sheets. and so the fact that we're already measuring losses of ice from these major continental ice sheets means that they're contributing to sea level rise faster, once again, than climate scientists projected them to.. >> can we say how soon it's gonnana start causing problems r people whho live near the seashore? >> there''s a credible body of work now that suggests that if we continue with bus