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Originally posted by goBigtime
Does it matter what rate of acceleration they are melted at?
Like what if they were melted completely over the course of a couple minutes?
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No not really, the ice actually takes up more space than the water it is made up of, this is why in the ice in the glass example the water level is lower when the ice melts. If you put the water and ice in a closed system and then flash boiled the water level still goes down, as a matter of fact it will be much lower in the bowl as the water vapor is in the atmosphere of the control area you have, if it is small enough you have condensation on the walls of the control area. If you put all the water back in the bowl somehow it is lower both because of the air removal and because some of it will be lost to the system itself. Fact is less water.
Also remember the continents are not cemented they are on plates which glide across the earth (plate tectonics). To prove that sea level is increasing every year you have to measure the sea by itself not by a land based mark, doing so destroys the methodology. Ocean waves as well as time of year (distance from earth to moon), weather patterns (hurricanes and storms) will change the level of the seas appearance. So far I have never seen the correct methodology behind a claim that the oceans level has been rising substantially outside of its normal pattern. If someone has please show it to me so I can learn
