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SpottedPineapple86 t1_iusn918 wrote

Reply to comment by whipfinish in TIL that one third of sea level rise is from thermal expansion (not melting ice) by on_surfaces

The water will take the place of where that ice is.

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whipfinish t1_iuswinr wrote

Antarctica is the highest continent on earth. Over half of that ice is more than 50 meters above current sea level, and it will be lifted even higher as the ice load is reduced during large-scale melting. The Greenland ice sheet creates almost no ice shelves and nearly all of its ice is over 50 meters above sea level.

The ice is not yet in the water.

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beetrootdip t1_iutixh1 wrote

Yeah, but god will make it rain over Greenland and make the water stay in a 50 m tall shape.

And I really hope this was obvious - /s

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