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Old June 14th 16, 05:20 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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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