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Re: Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drough

Derek Broughton

2006-03-30, 4:21 pm

daestrom wrote:

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> "Solar Flare" <sfart@hottomale.invalid> wrote in message
> news:tIqdnZYlX-_ujLbZRVn-rw@golden.net...
>
> Too bad you missed the point. Most of the ice in Antartica is *above* sea
> level. Greenland alone has 2.5e6 cubic km of ice *above* sealevel.

Even if he was right, it's a basic principle of physics - going back to
Archimedes at least - that if all that ice was floating, melting it
wouldn't change the surface level of the water one millimeter. A bouyant
object displaces its weight of water.
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derek

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