Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere...

The Conversation ^ | 23/12/25 | Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island

[Eleutheria5]

...we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impact

....The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles.

But melting ice sheets don’t affect sea level and temperatures in the same way everywhere.

In a November 2025 study, our team of scientists investigated how ice melting in Antarctica affects global climate and sea level.

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The extent to which the Antarctic ice sheet melts will depend on how much the Earth warms. And that depends on future greenhouse gas emissions from sources including vehicles, power plants and industries.

Studies suggest that much of the Antarctic ice sheet could survive if countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) compared to before the industrial era. However, if emissions continue rising and the Changes in Antarctica The extent to which the Antarctic ice sheet melts will depend on how much the Earth warms. And that depends on future greenhouse gas emissions from sources including vehicles, power plants and industries.

Studies suggest that much of the Antarctic ice sheet could survive if countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions....

Our research shows that high emissions pose risks not just to the stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet, which is already contributing to sea-level rise, but also for the much larger and more stable East Antarctic ice sheet.

It also shows how different regions of the world will experience different levels of sea-level rise as Antarctica melts.

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Instead, many places experience higher regional sea-level rise than the global average, while places close to the ice sheet can even see sea levels drop. The main reason has to do with gravity.

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KEYWORDS: antarctica; climatechange; icemelt; sealevel

[Eleutheria5]

Warning: Put down your drinks and swallow whatever's in your mouth before reading. Much had to be left out to keep it below 300 words, but it's all extremely series. Inform Greta and AOC STAT!.

It's all Israel and Trump's fault.

[packagingguy]

“Our research shows that high emission” from Western Countries, they meant.

[BipolarBob]

Repeal the Law of Gravity. Think of the lives it will save!!

[kawhill]

“Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere...” They never rise here, but a river will.

[hanamizu]

Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island

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I know it’s bad of me to notice, but Sadai and Kamalkar don’t strike me as traditional New England last names.

[jerod]

If you’re waiting around for Antarctica to melt... Don’t held your woke climate cult follower breath... Mankind won’t likely be here when or if that ever happens.

[Seaplaner]

HA!

Archimedes and my physics profs (from the 70s) would heartily disagree.

The notion that water seeks its own level is related to Archimedes' Principle. This, from an ai search...

Water Seeks Its Own Level The phrase "water seeks its own level" refers to the principle that water in connected containers will rise or fall until it reaches the same height in each container. This is a fundamental concept in hydrostatics.

Important Points

Hydrostatic Pressure: The pressure in a fluid depends only on the depth, not the shape or width of the container. Equal Levels: When two bodies of water are connected, they will equalize their levels due to gravity.

Practical Applications: This principle is used in various engineering applications, such as designing drainage systems and canals.

Relationship Between the Two Principles

Both Archimedes' principle and the concept of water seeking its own level are based on the behavior of fluids under the influence of gravity. They illustrate how fluids respond to forces and how objects interact with them, providing a foundation for understanding buoyancy and fluid dynamics.

[iamgalt]

More BS from yahoo circus.

[cuz1961]

It also shows how different regions of the world will experience different levels of sea-level rise as Antarctica melts.

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These people are either morons or think we are morons.

The tides are constantly changing sea levels daily hourly , and there are occasionally what are called King tides.

There is also land and ocean bottom
subsidence and lifting.

They are either ignorant of these things, or think we are and will fall for their deceptive con job gas lighting.

It gets soooo old .

[Wuli]

I have always pondered just how these alarmist modelers determine sea level rise from arctic and antarctic ice melt.

I have questioned what is there assumptions about just where the melting ice goes.

I think they may use wrong assumptions. They might assume the ice melt all, 100%, goes into the surrounding seas. If so, that would ignore how much of the melting actually happens/produces evaporation, which adds H2O to the atmosphere, all of which does not return to the seas, just as all rain on land does not return to the seas via the rivers. If the later were true there would not be oceans of ground water in the earth and the water tables on the land would not rise with the rains there.

In such a way they can easily overestimate sea level rise.

Also, sea level rise is sometimes claimed for measurements of where certain points of land on the coasts were at some point previously and are now, while ignoring the subsidence that has taken place there. I remember some reports that showed all the reported sea level rise in some area was not sea level rise at all but subsidence in that area.

[Snowybear]

Didn’t these idiots get the news that the Antarctic ice sheet is growing exponentially?!

SMDH!

-SB

[Eleutheria5]

It’s summer in Antarctica, so ice melts in summer. It’s a global phenomenon, I tell ya!

[sphinx]

This is not news. Women and minorities will be most affected. White people will not feel any impact.

[SkyDancer]

Fill a glass with ice and add water until the ice floats. What happens when the ice melts?

[AFreeBird]

But if the ice is not already in the glass, the water will rise. Just saying.

[webheart]

I laugh at the use of the word study. It means that they looked over the information available and drew conclusions from it. They did not do any actual scientific experimentation which would require them to go to Antarctica and measure the amount of ice and any changes over time. If they only studied it in November they would not have a large enough sample size. Also November is late spring in Antartica. Then they would have to go to a representative number of places to measure sea levels and temperatures and how they change over time. It would require a lot of time since sea level rise has not been shown to have changed much over 50 years.

It is easy to prove that sea level rise is different at different places due to plate tectonics and subsidence and erosion which definitely occurs differently in different places. By the same token it is easy to prove that the earth is flat if you don’t look too far.

[existentially_kuffer]

Democrats are high emissions!

[Clay Moore]

“Repeal the Law of Gravity. Think of the lives it will save!!”

Maybe now we will be able to go water skiing without having a boat!

[Eleutheria5]

Some emit profusely in Congress, from both orifices.

[TexasFreeper2009]

only rises in remote places where only liberals take the measurements.

If you are a conservative that lives at the beach, that part of the ocean never rises.