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Re: 90% of any floating ice volume is already in the water.

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On 5/24/15 8:02 PM, Fasci wrote:
> Any floating ice in the ocean has already displaced 90% of the
> total volume it will ever have in any form, and the water level
> adjusted almost immediately.  When ice melts, the total ice
> volume will actually further reduce by 10% as it reverts to
> water.
>
> Some of you may have learned this basic state change in the 4th
> grade.  If you didn't, you got short-changed in the brains
> department.  That will happen when public schools teach social
> crap instead of science.
>
> Why haven't the oceans risen already?
>
> Is it possible they will recede instead???
>
> Maybe some gobbler warming genius can explain where the supposed
> increase in water volume is going to come from.

Doesn't require genius. Just look at a postcard from Greenland. The ice 
that's on land melts and flows down into the sea.

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Re: 90% of any floating ice volume is already in the water. Bill Steele <ws21@cornel.edu> - 2015-05-26 14:53 -0400

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