Re: [Phys-L] Will APS be the first major scientific institution toreject the global warming 'consensus'?

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

But iceberg melting does not contribute to sea level rise.  It is a
combination of increasing temperature of water and the added water from
glaciers supported on land.  Greenland and Antarctica melting contribute,
but the arctic ice sheet does not.  A more accurate term about icebergs
would be the sea level rises as they are calved, much as your drink rises
when you add ice to it.

So they only got it half right.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


> V. recently (yesterday?) PBS News Hour broadcast a long 
> examination of a Florida's city acceptance of rising sea and 
> their mitigation plans Including appropriated $$!!!  The 
> presenter, and / or, IIRC, interviewed gave the cause to 
> iceberg melting and the expansion due to increased temp.