[Hot Tabasco]

With approx. 70% of this planet being water, should Greenland "COMPLETELY" melt would be the equivalent of me throwing my years worth of bathwater into Lake St. Clair...........It ain't going to make one bit of difference!

And should the Antarctic melt, being the giant ice cube that it is floating in the ocean, it ain't going to make one bit of difference!

Thanksgiving turned into a globalwarming war between myself and my doctor bro-in-law. I stated that all the floating ice masses on this planet melting would have no affect whatsoever on the ocean levels and he of course disputed my claim.

I then conducted the kindergarten level physics test of filling a glass of water to the brim with ice and measured the overflow of water as the ice melted. It didn't..............

[pyx]

Thanksgiving turned into a globalwarming war between myself and my doctor bro-in-law. I stated that all the floating ice masses on this planet melting would have no affect whatsoever on the ocean levels and he of course disputed my claim.

I then conducted the kindergarten level physics test of filling a glass of water to the brim with ice and measured the overflow of water as the ice melted. It didn't..............

How dare you clutter up and counter perfectly emotional arguments with lucid facts ! ;9

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THIS ===>URL. Its science, I tell ya ! Its science !

[muawiyah]

The Antarctic ice comes in three varieties ~ that which is on ground above sea level. That which is floating on the sea. And, that which is so deep, heavy and massive that it would float on the sea but it's been pushed all the way to the bottom.

It's that third kind that represents the greater part of the Antarctic ice.

Since it's not currently "floating", if it melts it raises the ocean level worldwide. In fact, it can do the same trick if it's somehow launched into deeper water where it can float.

If you want a tabletop demo try this. Fill a glass with water. Freeze it. Fill another glass with water. Freeze it. Then, worry the ice out of the first glass (being careful not to break it) and place it on top of the second glass. Once all of it melts you will have a very wet table top.