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To: NormsRevenge

Doesn’t make sense. When ice melts in a glass, the water doesn’t rise or overflow. I wonder what physics they are using.


21 posted on 11/24/2009 12:49:18 PM PST by Kay
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To: Kay

Water expands when it is frozen. Shouldn’t the sea levels drop if the ice caps melt?


31 posted on 11/24/2009 12:51:39 PM PST by resistance (abandon all hope and reason, become a democrat)
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To: Kay
Doesn’t make sense. When ice melts in a glass, the water doesn’t rise or overflow. I wonder what physics they are using.

The sea ice isn't a problem. However, all that land-based ice melting would theoretically add to the sea level rise, but then you have the weight of the ice lifted from the land mass, which would allow the long-suppressed land itself to rise, therefore negating the rising sea levels...

I need a beer.

58 posted on 11/24/2009 1:04:27 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Kay

They’re talking about land ice; take the coffee strainer out of your coffee maker, put a filter in it and then fill it with ice from your refrigerator.

When the ice melts, the water will be in the pot.

This is not a quick way to make ice coffee.


80 posted on 11/24/2009 1:58:59 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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