Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
What are the odds of balancing these effects up to an overall effect of zero? Maybe there is simply nothing happening? Where is the rest of the water that will rise sea levels 60 meter comming from by the way, if we do not act right now.
And here's a nice example of what I feel is trolling. The worst estimates is 2 meters rise until 2100. For all 60+ meters to melt, we're talking more than a millenia or aliens testing their heat weapons on Antartica.

Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
Not trolling, if a global rise of temperature is the common dominator in the equation and the end result (rising sea level) is zero the two poles should exactly balance eachother out. Either they do, or nothing is happening.
Sigh. Artic= glas with ice cubes floating on top of water. We've already given examples about how to display buoyancy. Water level won't rise.
Notable consequences. The polar bears are in trouble in thier natural habitat. The Northwest passage is suddenly useful for the first time in history. Suddenly every country is starting to claim Artica due to new access to the sea bottom.

Antartic =Mix between ice on the table (=continental glacier) and the whole glass being frozen with a nice 2km tall tower of snow on top of all of it.

And for the final thing you said. Did you notice that I said that the sea level is already rising because of this melting of glaciers? It's just slow due to the scale involved. It's about 5,8 cm since 1993.