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Originally Posted by redpoint5
10% of that is on land, so 0.175% can affect sea level. Of course, warming water causes expansion because warmer things occupy more space. I'm told that is the main driver of sea level rise, not the melting ice.
Will we lose more land due to sea rise, or gain more from what was frozen wasteland?
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Up until fifty years ago,Antarctic sea ice-shelves buttressed the land-borne glaciers.As the ice shelves disintegrate,they 'uncork' the glaciers,which are now accelerating to the ocean,breaking off as gravity overwhelms the unsupported,cantilevered ice,rupturing,and calving ice bergs.It's this new ice which is the concern of glaciologists,as related to sea level rise.