Why in the hell would the sea rise anyway?
Put ice cubes in a glass of water and when the
ice melts does the water run over? Duh!
New islands making water rise makes more sense.
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Antarctica and Greenland have enough ice to increase the level of the oceans 1' if they melt 37' on average.
true for the arctic, but not antarctic where ice is on land.
The contention is that the Greenland ice cap is melting, since Greenland is on above sea level land, the considerable melt water will increase the ocean volume, also ocean volume will increase due to increase in gross temperature.
new islands don’t create new mass from nothingness or do they?
But to the consternation of the global warming crowd, antarctic ice is expanding.
While that is certainly true, it does not hold for ice that is supported by underlying dirt or stone. Such "supported" ice, mainly Greenland and Antarctica, does have the potential to cause a rise in mean sea level if it were to melt.
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GtG
Put ice cubes in a glass of water and when the ice melts does the water run over? Duh!
What you say would make sense if all the ice that might melt was floating in the sea. But this is not true. There is a huge volume of ice on land on the Antarctic continent and in Greenland. Also a lot of the ice that is offshore Antarctica is not floating but is resting on the seabed. If this ice melts it *will* raise the level of the oceans.
Imagine that instead of a few cubes of ice in your glass of water, there is a chunk of ice that is so big and heavy that it rests on the bottom of your glass and also pokes above the liquid. If the glass is initially filled to the brim, it will overflow when the ice melts.
Still skeptical? Imagine that you just keep piling ice higher and higher in your drink. Don't you think there is going to be a point when it there will be enough ice that it will make the drink overflow when it melts? In fact you will get overflow with melting anytime you add enough ice to your drink so that it is resting on the bottom.
“Why in the hell would the sea rise anyway?
Put ice cubes in a glass of water and when the
ice melts does the water run over? Duh!”
True but there is a substantial amount of ice on land. Hence the sea levels would rise if that ice melted.
Ice cubes in water, does the water run over?
That is all very well for the ice that is already in the water, but the ice in Greenland and large areas of Antarctica are above sea level. If they melt, and Greenland has a lot of people worried, then it does increase sea level. Also if sea water is warmer, it expands and raises sea level a bit. This winter in the mid Atlantic has been colder than for the past several years, but hardly as cold as it was 30 and 40 years ago when I first started living here. On the other hand Australia had 120 degree temps before the fires which were not helped by the 12 year drought they have been having.
IIRC, ice that’s on land will cause the sea level to rise as it melts and adds its mass to the seawater.
“Why in the hell would the sea rise anyway?”
If you leave the hose running?