[NorthMountain]

You can do this experiment at home.

You need a large glass mixing bowl, some salt, some water, and some ice cubes.

Sea water is approximately 3.5% salinity, so mix up some pseudo seawater in your glass bowl. Use a grease pencil to mark the water line.

Add some ice cubes, make sure they’re all floating. You should see the water level rise. This simulates land ice entering the water. Mark the new water level. Let the ice melt. Does the water level rise, fall, or remain the same as the ice melts?

Empty the bowl and start over. Make some new “seawater”, and again mark the water level. Then pile the bowl full of ice cubes, so that the pile of ice cubes touches the bottom and rises more than one ice cube width above the water level. Mark the new LIQUID water level. Tis simulates shore-fast ice. Let the ice melt. As it melts, does the liquid water level rise, fall, or remain the same?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Thanks. Tonight I'm going to conduct a slightly modified version of the experiment you mentioned.

To two ounces of bourbon, a half ounce of orange curacao, and a few jiggers of bitters I will add one large ice cube and stir.

I will then determine if the mixture increases or decreases my anxiety level with regard to global warming... er... climate change.