“As they flow off the land, we are warned, seas rise. Yet something else is lately worrying geologists: the likelihood that the Earth’s crust, relieved of so much formidable weight of ice borne for many thousands of years, has begun to stretch and rebound.”
What a bunch of putrid ignorance. The earth’s crust does not consist of only the land area, it includes what’s underneath the oceans! Not only that, but there hasn’t been any sea rise!!
Not only that, but the land rises and falls, in response to the incoming and outgoing tide.
You can measure sea level at the shoreline, any place you would like, and it doesn't mean squat.
With all the rising and falling going on at the beaches, you would think they would have the most earthquakes.
The biggest contributor to earthquakes is that the Earth is growing.
Only way to get the icecaps to melt and cause a significant change in ocean levels is to flip the Earth on it's axis so that the polar icecaps are on the equator and we are at one of the poles. (which is how we got miles deep glaciers covering the North American continent to begin with).
Anybody got a surefire way to flip the planet, let me know.