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Old June 17th 09, 06:38 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Rodney Blackall Rodney Blackall is offline
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Default Phew that was a close one

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Weatherlawyer wrote:

BTW how will sea ice melting cause problems down here? It won't raise
the sea level. In fact rumour has it that een if Greenland's sheet is
removed most of that will have little effect too neither as most of
Greenland is an archipelago apparently.


What rubbish! Not true, in fact it is worse. If ice is removed from
Greenland, isotatic (?) release means the underlying rock will rise slowly
and raise sea-level further.

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