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0 pointsansible5y ago0 comments

While everything you said is correct, we should all be aware that the existence of floating ice tends to hold back the glaciers that are on land. Without the floating ice, those glaciers will flow more rapidly off into the ocean, and that will increase the average sea level.

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nuccy5y ago

Indeed, glaciers are literally ice-rivers [1], they flow from mountains down. Melting downstream near the sea/ocean will accelerate their disappearance and yield to global oceal level increase. Ronne Ice Shelf is like an ice-gulf, melting and separation of icebergs reclaims the ice allowing water getting deeper and deeper into Antarctica.

[1] https://youtu.be/he5QzhE7_g4?t=16

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