Q: If an ice cube melts in a glass of water - does the water rise, fall or stay the same?

A: It'll stay the same as the ice cube displaced (raising the level) it's exact mass of water.

So therefore if we only lose SEA ice - then no raising of sea levels will occur. 

Then of course one has to ask how much atmospheric water vapour is increased, this might offset the lost ice over land from glacier retreat and less snow cover.

>>> jamesnewton@massmind.org 15 Oct 07 18:22:26 >>>
The nice thing about actual data is it removes any personal bias. I was
rather amazed to find the following:

<snip>

If the ocean level rises in one part of the world, doesn't it pretty much
have to rise all over, given some time for the water to move to the lowest
point?

<snip>

Or is it that the oceans are so deep and broad that the water will not
visibly rise until a much larger quantity of ice has melted?

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James.


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