[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

The point about glaciers and polar ice caps melting is that, until they melt, they are NOT part of any ocean and don't contribute any mass that would raise the ocean's level. But it's only a theoretical point. The Middle Ages were renowned for theories, but most of them have been discarded. The enviro-priests have decreed "First the verdict, then the trial!"

As I told some enviro-paranoids once, "As long as we keep having weather, we will keep having apocalyptic predictions."

[Don W]

Well, considering that a large proportion of the southern ice cap, and ALL of the northern ice cap is floating ice, I'm not overly concerned.

If you are concerned, then you should prepare for the inexorable rise in sea level that is going to inundate the planet and drown everything within 200 miles of the coast.

Meanwhile, I'll continue to live my life 50 feet above sea level. On an island.

[Drammach]

In March, 2000, iceberg B-15 "calved" from the antarctic ice shelf..
Subsequently, it broke up and the larger piece, B-15A, impacted the Drygalski (sp?) tongue breaking off a couple of large icebergs..

B-15A has recently started to break apart a little more..
Six years after it "calved" and entered the sea..

Six years and it's still around...
I don't see alot of "melting" going on there..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-15A

http://earth.esa.int/ew/special_events/iceberg-b15_antartic/sp_iceberg-b15.htm