The first line of the article says "The >>floating<< cap of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer..." At 07:48 AM 9/29/2005, ed pegg wrote:

Floating ice displaces an equal amount of water, true.

However, the Arctic ice is partially anchored, and not floating.

Ed Pegg Jr

--- Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:

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Let me see -- melting floating ice makes the water level rise? Isn't this a standard SAT question? I guess Mr Revkin's verbal SAT scores exceed his math SAT scores.