What's wrong with our Weather?
On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 16:17:02 UTC+1, Togless wrote:
"N_Cook" wrote:
A sort of thought experiment. If sufficient ice melted off , only,
Greenland to raise the average sea-level around the world by 1 metre, how
much of a rise around Greenland itself?
It would fall by quite a bit around Greenland because of the reduced
gravitational pull of all that now-absent ice.
I don't think gravity would have much effect at all. In any case Greenland would rise because of the reduced ice burden which would nullify any reduced gravitation.
Tudor Hughes
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