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Only glaciers on land cause sea level rise.



The greatest factor in projected sea level rise is the average temperature of the oceans--warm water takes up more volume, and there is a lot more water than ice in the world. Melting of land-supported ice is a fairly distant second.

This is not a direct response to you, but it's a fact that few people seem to realize when discussing ocean levels and global warming.


Interesting, can you cite references for this?


This is covered in the discussion of sea-level rise in the IPCC reports linked in several comments above. Wikipedia has a page about it with lots of source links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

edit to fix link


Jakobshavn Glacier drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet


Right, I'm just saying that this event didn't cause an immediate increase in sea level.




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