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CompositeBeing t1_jabypcu wrote

Reply to comment by macross1984 in Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping by DoremusJessup

I would re read that physics books again - a melting floating ice you and the article referring to does NOT increase the average sea level. What is more - the southern hemisphere has summer right now.

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Wildercard t1_jac86nf wrote

Google en passant THERMAL EXPANSION OF WATER

Ice is a sort of heat sink buffer.

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TheMania t1_jac1nxi wrote

All helps the land-sitting glaciers slide in to the ocean though, doesn't it.

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beaucoupBothans t1_jaes137 wrote

This is about antarctic ice which for the most part is not floating. And it being summer isn't relevant ice averages are measured and compared year over year.

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gleba080 t1_jabyzto wrote

Does the reduction of sea ice has any effect on land ice melting?

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