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To: DocRock
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...

66 posted on 12/18/2009 10:43:44 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Same here — I’m in North Central Wisconsin... From what I’m told there was a pretty thick sheet of ice here, too — and all the way down into Illinois for that matter!


129 posted on 12/18/2009 5:52:41 PM PST by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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