On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:07:38PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > There's three issues with the doomsaying about Global Warming that I see. > > The silliest doomsaying is the flooding from emlting icecaps idea. Ice > is less dense than water. Melted icecaps are as likely to result in sea > level drops than rises.
True for the North polar icecap, which displaces pretty much it's own weight of water :-) But Antarctica is a different story - a significant quantity of water is tied up there, and melting it would indeed lead to a considerable rise in mean sea level. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
