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On Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:10 PM, Vickie Frohne wrote:
Any rise in the ocean levels due to global warming will be
due to ice that's currently on land (ice sheets in Greenland
or Antarctica). Melting sea ice (i.e. the north polar ice
cap)will not contribute to the rise in sea level because
floating sea ice is already displacing ocean water.
That assumes there is no heavier-than-water object resting on (or in)
the ice?