Let's just wait and see whether the sea levels rise and swamp the world's coastal cities. Otherwise, these reports are pure bunk.
If I let the ice melt completely in my Jack & Coke, the level goes down .( without drinking)
Huh? This is sea ice. When sea ice melts it obviously has no effect on sea levels. It's already in the ocean. However, sea ice may bottle up glaciers, keeping them on land -- with this shelf out of the way, those glaciers may flow into the ocean, something that would, obviously, raise sea levels.
Yep, 90% of ice shelf is under water, thus displacing water like a ship. the melting ice should just “fill in the hole” where the iceshelf was floating, thus no increase in sea level. Just like filling a glass with ice and water — and after the ice melts, the water level is lower than when it was solid.
Oh yes, the interior of antartica has been getting steadly colder the last decade according to reports these folks ignore reporting about.
When an ice shelf melts, no sea level rise is experienced; if a huge chunk of earth-bound glacier melts and goes kerplunk, the level rises as it does when you drop an olive in your drink.
This has been going on for as long as we have had explorations there; new snow falls every year and the resultant flow is still about 2mm year total sea rise.
The conditions now are repeated each autumn in the Antarctic.
The concern now is that the overall temperatures are higher than around 1920 or so when we first established stations.
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