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Originally Posted by Heytubes
Interesting about icebergs melting and cities being threatened. When I fill a glass with ice and water the ice will melt, but the level of water stays the same. Got to figure if that compares to melting icebergs raising the sea level how many feet.
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Sounds like you may have never seen an actual iceberg or understand what they are.
They are literally massive chunks of snow and ice that are floating on top of the oceans with a weight usually ranging from 100k tonnes to 10 million tons each. Average size is around the equivalent of a 15 foot skyscraper. There are several millions of these icebergs, so it's not hard to do the math and understand that it will raise the water levels.
An iceberg is nothing like an ice cube. Ice cubes don't float on top of the liquid in your glass.