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Utter nonsense, and goes against any known physics. If an iceberg is already floating in the ocean, then it has already displaced that ocean by an amount. Jus
by scarygliders 5y ago
Utter nonsense, and goes against any known physics.
If an iceberg is already floating in the ocean, then it has already displaced that ocean by an amount.
Just in exactly the same way an ice cube has already displaced surrounding water in a glass.
If or when the aforementioned iceberg melts, there will be no further raising of sea level - because the level was already displaced.
Same as with the ice cube in the glass of water.
- Barrin92 5y agoIf you've read the article you will have found the explanation there. The problem isn't the already floating ice, which indeed does not rise the sea level, but the land ice the floating mass is attached to.
- scarygliders 5y agoAnd that's because of the high geothermal activity underneath the glacier. [0] Nothing to do with cLiMaTe ChAnGe. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3 - "High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data" - 17-Aug-2021
- Barrin92 5y agoClimate change is one contributor to the dynamics of that glacier, so yes it has a lot to do with it, but either way this has nothing to do with your original post, in which you apparently weren't even aware of the fact that the melting of the glacier would rise the sea level which your provided source also states, so I'm glad we have at least made progress on that front.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoThis user is pasting this one study all over this thread, and now has mockery and belittlement. He's likely an astroturf troll.
- scarygliders 5y ago"He's presenting information which I disagree with, therefore he must be a troll" Please listen to yourself.