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The "few meters of rise" you mention are meters of rise of global sea levels?
by NPMaxwell 8y ago
The "few meters of rise" you mention are meters of rise of global sea levels?
- btilly 8y agoYup. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet#Potential_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet#Poten... the potential rise is 4.8 meters, which is 16 feet. Of course a likely collapse will be some fraction of that. Unfortunately there are big question marks about how quickly it could happen. But we do get very large icebergs every so often - for example a couple of years ago there was one the size of Delaware. (Of course floating ice to floating freely moving ice does not directly change sea level. It does make sea water a bit fresher though.)