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If the ice that is floating anyway melts- you won't notice any change in sea level- cos there won't be any.
obviously.
Its when the land based ice starts to go, thats when sea levels will suffer.
also some scientists maintain that the levels are going to be far more affected thant predicted due to glacial meltage that would occur before the loss of the polar ice.
so realistically, the data is too easily manipulated to mean anything, and both sides can argue for days without concluding anything.
my 2p.
Gah.... I was rewording this and then backspace pissed me off:
my points are described better in all links above.
Arctic/ floating ice shelf melting will have no effect on sea level.
Antartic/glaicial melting= fuckage.
however, that temp change would have to be extreme and predictions for that are less imiment than the graph suggests.
furthermore, there are some indicators of the temperature cycle of the planet which have been interpreted by some as leading to a non-man influenced warming, and by some to be indicative that we are heading for a period of rapid cooling.
Its not a science that has lost its monetary subjectivity yet, and the ghost of that is very powerful indeed when it comes to understanding+ interpreting hte data presented.