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Originally posted by SleazyDream
What they might do is set one off in antarctia. It isn't watched as closly. If you do that and melt a substaintial portion of ice caps there you could raise the world's oceans a few feet and destroy about 40% of all costal property - something like 60% of the US population lives at above 15 feet sea level. and not just the USA - europe, japan, austraila, etc.
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Melting the ice up North will do absolutely nothing to the current level of the world's oceans. The ice is already in the water, and the displacement of the water by the ice is replaced by the water from the ice when it is melted.
Melting the ice at the South Pole, however, is another story.