In article <lmcfth$gqk$1@odin.sdf-eu.org>, kym@kymhorsell.com says... > > In sci.physics Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> wrote: > > Am 30.05.2014 02:36, schrieb R Kym Horsell: > >> Oh, sure. 1-2 mm/yr c1900, 2-3 mm/yr c2000 -- It's starting to compare > >> favourably to the last time the ice sheets melted. > >> www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201120605.htm > >> 4 Dec 2010 ... Southampton researchers have estimated that sea-level rose by an average of > >> about 1 metre per century at the end of the last Ice Age, ... > > E.g. this article: > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140528133151.htm > > Quote: > > "A new study has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about > > 5,000 years earlier than previously thought coming out of the last ice > > age -- and that shrinkage of the vast ice sheet accelerated during eight > > distinct episodes, causing rapid sea level rise." > > How can they call this 'science'? > > The Antarctic is NOT melting AT ALL! > > The average temperatures are well below melting point of water, so there > > is little chance for ice to melt. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Antarctica > > Icebergs are already floating, hence have no influence on the sea-levels. > > Your poor addlepated moron. > > You seem to believe you can maintain one end of an iceblock at 10C > and the other end at -11C and it doesn't melt because its > average temperature is <0. > > And you also seem to believe all ice found floating on the sea is frozen sea > water. > > Sheesh.
Regardless of its source, if it is floating on the sea and it melts it has no effect on sea level.
