Timeline for Rising sea levels due to thermal expansion
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| Sep 24 at 16:02 | comment | added | KDP | @PM2Ring That makes sense. | |
| Sep 24 at 15:51 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaites_Glacier If/when the floating shelf goes, the speed that the ice sheet falls off the land and into the sea will increase markedly. | |
| Sep 24 at 15:25 | comment | added | KDP | @PM2Ring Why do people worry about the "Doomsday glacier" when it shouldn't make much difference? msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/… | |
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| Sep 24 at 5:44 | comment | added | KDP | Actually NASA only states that 1/3 of the observed rise is due to thermal expansion but does not state where the other 2/3 comes from. Humidity is a factor, but if anything, increasing temperatures would allow the global atmosphere to hold more water on average and together with increasing evaporation, humidity would tend to oppose sea level rise as temperatures increase. | |
| Sep 24 at 5:01 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | See physics.stackexchange.com/q/110645/123208 There is a small volume increase because iceberg water isn't salty. | |
| Sep 24 at 4:56 | comment | added | KDP | @PM2Ring NASA disagrees. See the link I just added to my answer. They suggest 2/3 of sea level rise is due to polar ice melting. Antarctic ice is presumably on land and when it melts it becomes water in the ocean. | |
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| Sep 24 at 4:33 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Arctic polar ice is floating, so it doesn't have much effect on sea level when it melts. Antarctic ice is more complicated en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_shelf | |
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| Sep 24 at 0:21 | history | answered | KDP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |