You should note that seawater is salty, but the ice is not. So, when the ice melts, some of the salt will move from the seawater to the fresh water until equilibrium is reached. This could have some effect on the volume of water, but I don't have time to research what that might be. In any case, the seawater rise due to global warming is due to non-floating ice melting AND to the warming of the water (which increases its volume). The NYTimes is notoriously poor in reporting on any science or technology. I would take all of it with a grain of salt. --ms Henry Baker wrote:
That was the point of my original posting -- the NYTimes thought that melting floating ice would raise the water level -- they were obviously wrong.
At 04:09 PM 9/29/2005, dasimov@earthlink.net, math-fun wrote:
(So what's the business about floating ice raising water levels when it melts?)
--Dan
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