Antarctica gives birth to world's largest iceberg

[Sean C]

Originally Posted by mapuc

When it has melted how much would the sea level gone up.

Markus

Yes, as Von Due said: the level of the oceans will not rise at all. The ice shelf from which the berg broke was already floating on the water.


It's just like when you put some ice in a glass and fill it right to the brim with water. Come back when the ice has melted and how much has overflowed? None - because the displacement doesn't change.


What gets me is how "Ted Scambos, a research glaciologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder" is so sure that this has nothing to do with global warming, because this sort of thing happens all the time. Even though no one seems to be able to fully explain (or even agree on) "global warming" or "climate change" or whatever we're calling it now.



Let's just all ignore the fact that the climate has also been changing since ... as far back as we can measure. No - that's all our fault.


You can't tax a glacier - or a land mass that no one claims as theirs.


Just sayin'.