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Originally Posted by biker1
The concern is glaciers, which are land based. Ocean levels have been rising for some time (about 12,000 years) as land based ice melts and water expands as the oceans warm.
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What broke off in Antartica wasn't a glacier... It's a huge ice berg...
From the Google Machine: "Satellite imagery provided by the British Antarctic Survey shows the
iceberg wending its way through the Weddell Sea in the Southern Ocean throughout 2022 and 2023, pushed by currents and winds across thousands of kilometres. The mass of ice reached just beyond the Antarctic Peninsula in late November.Nov 27, 2023"