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Is he really saying that Greenland melting would lower the sea lever in the near surroundings by 30-50m, or was there a conversion mistake?
by tajen 11y ago
Is he really saying that Greenland melting would lower the sea lever in the near surroundings by 30-50m, or was there a conversion mistake?
- Clor1 11y agoIt's counterintuitive perhaps, but yes. The opposite also happened: during the Antarctic glaciation (build up of ice caps), globally sea levels dropped by 60 m, but in the Antarctic region the sea level rose with 150 meters [1]. Simply because of the huge gravitational pull towards the mass. Ice caps can be several kilometers high...by g=Gm/r^2 and being on a sphere the effect is quite local. [1] http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/sterke-regionale-zeespiegelstijging-tijdens-vorming-ijskap-op-antarctica/ http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/...