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To: Arkancide
But, according to the new study, published in the September issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice estimates fail to correct for a phenomenon known as glacial isostatic adjustment.

So to put it in layman's terms, the heavy ice pushes down on the Earth's crust, so even though there's less water (because it's in the form of ice), the sea levels don't fall. So in the reverse, with less ice pushing down, the earth's crust "rebounds" back upwards and even with the additional water (from the melted ice), the sea level changes are mitigated.

Proving once again, the climatological systems are just too complex to make human-based calculations on, even with our most powerful computers.

5 posted on 09/07/2010 10:17:37 AM PDT by GreenAccord (Bakon Akbar!)
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To: GreenAccord; SunkenCiv; All

Rebound might be helpful for northern areas of Europe and America, but I can’t see it doing much for India or South East Asia.


57 posted on 09/07/2010 11:46:39 PM PDT by gleeaikin (question authority)
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