[DocRock]

When I was a kid, I had a science teacher that explained the ice above a fluid’s level was the amount of expansion from the process of freezing. When it melts, it doesn’t increase the fluid level. How does polar ice melting create higher fluid (sea) levels?

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"How does polar ice melting create higher fluid (sea) levels?"

It can't. They will claim that the antarctic ice is above the ground. But the northern ice can't do a thing. And have they accounted for the fact that the weight of the ice on antarctica is pushing it down? So if it raised up, the ocean floor would go down, creating more room for the water?

Never mind the fact that Antarctica has been uncovered IN HUMAN HISTORY, as evidenced by the Piri Reis map, backing up the Biblical account of history, and refuting the modern view.

[ReneeLynn]

Excellent point AND hilarious.

[tx_eggman]

How does polar ice melting create higher fluid (sea) levels?

Antarctica is the problem ... it's ice over a landmass, not ice floating on water (like the Arctic ice mass). It has 70% of all the world's freshwater frozen as ice - and 90% of all the world's ice. So, IF the Antarctic ice were to melt, sea levels would rise.

Currently, the Antarctic ice mass is increasing in size.

[Smokin' Joe]

How does polar ice melting create higher fluid (sea) levels?

Pack ice won't, nor will any ice floating on the sea, but glaicers on land can because the water trapped in them is not supported by displacement of seawater, but by the land the water would run off of to contribute to a rise in sea level.

That said, where I sit now in ND once had a kilometer thick ice sheet over it, and I, for one, would rather not have to shovel that off of my sidewalks...