[exDemMom]

I had no idea ice melts in the summer........

Inorite?

Such an appalling lack of science literacy on display here. Melting icebergs do not cause sea levels to change.

It's an easy enough experiment to do: take a basin, fill with water, and add icecubes until the level of water is nearly even with the rim. Wait for the icecubes to melt. Watch what happens to the water level.

The exact same thing happens in the ocean. The melting of floating icebergs has NO effect on sea level.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Have Kerry try it with ice in the stuff he must be drinking all day long to be this stupid...

[Ben Ficklin]

You are correct about sea ice, it freezes and melts every year and does not affect sea level.

But ice bergs aren't created from sea ice. As the article points out, icebergs are created from glaciers, which are land ice.

It is the ice on land which, if it melts, will cause sea level rise. And the land ice that will melt first is the glacier ice, because it naturally flows into the oceans. Warming has the potential to speed up the glacier's rate of flow.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The fear sounds like it is about ice melting on land and flowing as water to the oceans.