Why doesn’t all that melting ice translate into sea-level rise?
Sea-ice is floating.
> Why doesn’t all that melting ice translate into sea-level rise? <
Please be patient. The Climate Change quack scientists are even now making up fake numbers to cover that.
Sea-ice is floating.
Because the Arctic ice cap is already floating, and because it is not melting at any greater rate than usual. Beyond that, I don’t suppose they mention the relevance of Trump’s Greenland initiative.
For the same reason that the ice in your iced tea doesn’t raise the level of tea in your glass as it melts.
Frozen H2O is not as dense as liquid H2O- that’s why ice floats. A pound of ice also takes up much more space than a pound of warm water. As it melts the volume of space it takes up decreases and the water around it fills the difference.
Same reason melting ice in your glass does not cause the glass to overflow. Only melting ice on land (think Siberia, Alaska, Greenland) contributes to a sea level rise.