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Originally Posted by dcb
Are you saying that:
you do not think the north pole is getting smaller/warmer on average?
the sea level is not rising at about .3cm /year?
the average global temperature is not increasing?
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The NP has been getting smaller lately, as it has grown and shrunk before.
Again, it's just a matter of what time frame you wish to look at.
It was a lot larger 12.000 years ago during the ice age, and has been getting smaller since.
We know how far the NP ice cap has extended in the past when it reached land, but we don't know for sure how far it has shrunk before we started looking ...
North Pole ice, being floating ice, has no effect on sea level.