The answer is that while most of the ice at the Arctic is floating and won't raise the oceans as it melts (as you correctly stated), much of the ice at the Antarctic is on land. If that melts, it will raise the level of the ocean.
2006-08-12 18:40:13
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answer #1
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answered by Kurt 3
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When you see a chunk of ice or an ice berg, you only see 1/8 of it above the sea. When you think about it all melting, it sort of makes sense if it raises the ocean. It's hard to explain, but that should give you an idea of what I'm trying to say.
2006-08-12 18:53:41
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answered by looc2sisirhc 1
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Because the ice caps are on land. Where do you think that melt water is going to go? Into the ocean.
2006-08-12 18:26:39
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answered by Oh Boy! 5
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Ice that is floating will not raise the oceans when it melts, but ice sitting on a land mass will. When computing the ocean rise from melting ice, scientists distinguish between floating ice and land-based ice.
2006-08-12 18:13:44
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answered by gp4rts 7
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Ice consist of hard molecules together, that earth inside has the heat and the capacity of earth and the volumn of water from ice added to the sea level. It does happen before during the ice age, when some part of it has melted into the sea. They were the same elements of water together.
2006-08-13 03:53:02
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answered by Eve W 3
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Not a silly question - I had th esame one, so I don't want to be silly either... anyway.
I think it is because the ice is stored up above sea level in the artic/antarctic. When it melts, it goes in the ocean, raising the sea level.
2006-08-12 18:13:46
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answered by Anonymous
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no question is silly! you have a good question. now let me explain it in a simple way! suppose you have a glass filled with water, and some ice cubes floating, to the brim. now if this ice melts,the glass is not going to overflow! suppose you have another cup with ice cubes and you add it to the glass after it melts, it would certainly overflow. the ice in form of glaciers in the mountains and colder regions are similar to the ice in the cup and the water in the glass represents the sea water! guess i could answer you!
2006-08-12 18:48:05
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answered by Anonymous
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might ought to consider bestonne's answer and upload, mutually as the Arctic itself won't have lots of an effect on sea point (it rather is barely on universal 3-6 meters thick) it blocks/slows countless huge glaciers in Northern Canada, Europe/Russia and Greenland those might enhance sea point with out the Arctic to sluggish them. The Antarctic is km's thick even a small soften at a number of the extra beneficial glaciers would desire to enhance sea point m's. gen patton: the respond to "if all of it melts" and insults approximately nitwits aside the respond is ~150m purely because it rather is prevalent that it became ~70m decrease over the previous ice age, you need to do extra study significant patton. DaveH: the present temp on the south pole (the coldest place in the international) (rather it rather is Vostok station -88c) certainty is, it rather is presently nevertheless popping out of iciness and -61c is approximately universal, utilising the graph you offered it rather is extraordinarily undemanding to make certain that from the 80s onwards the form between iciness lows and summer season highs is getting bigger with a number of spikes interior the 2000s. specific it rather is snowing extra, because of fact the seas around Antarctica are warming, Antarctica is the driest place in the international, i.e. little precipitation (snow), this has bigger in modern times yet a glacier remains water yet shifting at a plenty slower %., if the 'enter' will enhance then the flow additionally will enhance it rather is genuine of rivers and glaciers. Deniers desire to hold up Antarctica as data GW isn't happening because of fact it rather is getting extra snow fall, and ice is slightly bigger, project is it rather is strictly what maximum climatologists suggested might ensue a decade in the past.
2016-12-14 05:03:18
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answered by ? 3
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as most of the ice are in the form of glaciers over the sea so when they melt the level of ocean is going to go up
2006-08-12 18:33:41
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answered by esses 1
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because glaciers and ice burgs stay partially above water, when they melt they fill the ocean with more water and take up more space which raises the sea level.
2006-08-12 18:14:14
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answered by Anonymous
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