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Since the total mass of the ocean and ice remains unchanged during the melting process, this has often led to the erroneous assumption that sea level will be unaffected by the melting of floating ice, say geologists David Holland and Adrian Jenkins.
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Much global warming alarm centers upon concerns that melting glaciers will cause a disastrous sea level rise.
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To them, such a fate might have been more dramatic and plausible than the change in sea level that would have accompanied the melting and gradual retreat glacial icesheets.
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Our scientists generally think that global warming will cause a melting of the icecaps and that will raise the water level and so on and so forth, but that might not be the worst thing that happens.
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Sure, but even if Greenland and Antarctica melting is on ice for a while, what about that dreaded sea level-hiking runoff from those glaciers?
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This means that we can expect more than the one-meter sea level rise projected for 2100, a fact that the rapid melting of the Greenland ice sheet, as well as strong indications that the western part of the Antarctic ice sheet is also melting, strongly support.
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Such increased summer melting has an immediate local temperature effect, and it also will affect sea level.
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In fact, recent research by Blancon et al published in Nature in 2009, examining the paleoclimate record, shows sea-level rises of 3 metres in 50 years due to the rapid melting of ice sheets 123, 000 years ago in the Eemian, when the energy imbalance in the climate system was less than that to which we are now subjecting the planet.
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However, the fact that more ice rests below sea level means that on millennial timescales, increased amounts of ice are potentially vulnerable to ocean melting.
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