I recently moved to a coastal area, and I work near the coast as well for local government. Certain portions of my work unfortunately focus on “climate change.” A BIG focus is “sea level rise.” As a result, I pay attention to this and I’m beginning to notice inconsistent reports on the amount of “sea level rise” might impact different areas of the coast. I haven’t had time to research for sauce but I plan to do so. Sea level is sea level. If it rises, it should rise consistently around the world, unless there is a weather system like a hurricane, right?
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Somebody here on GAW posted about an experiment you can try.
Fill a glass with ice water. Let it melt and see how much the water rises.
Does the experiment require that you live in a density / displacement free zone?
Yeah, but Greenland and Antarctica have most of their ice over the landmass.
Not believing the sea level hoax, but your experiment is easily refuted by that fact.
To OPs question.
No, mostly because of the coriolis effect and the moon.
The experiment works BETTER when ice is above water level, honestly. Do it. Fill a glass with ice then pour water to nearly fill - but you have to have the glacier proportion of Greenland for example below water- and mark the line. Let it melt and check the line.
What?
Read what I wrote again.
Icebergs melting will not affect sea levels because water vs ice density. Glaciers melting (like Greenlands inland’s ice and the ice over the Antarctica mountain range)
Melting icebergs will however dilute the salt level in the ocean, that might have some effect on how the sea works.
And because melting ice has temperature differential than the surround sea, the currents also might be affected. Like melting Greenland glaciers and the Gulf Stream.
What I mean is, if I understood you correctly: using this experiment to show that melting ice won’t affect the sea level is easily refutable.
Melting ice will certainly affect the sea level, but only if the ice is on land, which a lot of it are above Greenland and Antarctica. Melting icebergs might also affect the sea with lower salt levels and changes in currents.