Oh, dear, that great scientific journal, the Daily Mail, has goofed. Alert the presses.

However, we have to distinguish between ice caps on land, which are decreasing and thereby increasing the sea level, until the plates adjust to the decreased weight, and icebergs and ice shelves, which float and displace water. In the last instance, the ice shelf off Antarctica is interesting. While it may be increasing in extent, two studies independently showed that the thickness is decreasing as it melts from the bottom.

Clearly you lack some simple education. Sea Ice does not affect sea levels as the same mass is displaced in water. It's only land ice that can affect sea levels and no expansion of ice caps can increase the land underneath. If you don't believe this, try it yourself with a glass and ice cubes.

It also isn't new ice that is important but the old ice that lasts longer than a year.

Science is not your strong point. Ice caps float on water. Melting floating ice does not add to water levels.

Try it with ice in a drink



The paper is a rag, this has nothing to do with long term climate. The long trrm tren is still down and the ice is getting thinner. Ask the people who actually live there

UPDATE: The more you write, the dumber it looks, it's not even entertaining anymore.

Because the ocean is warming and hence expanding.

And Floating ice has no effect.

The south polar cap has increased in area but decreased in volume. In other words it is getting thinner and wider at the same time.

1. The Daily Mail gutter rag is not a reliable source of scientific information.

2. People who never learned grade school science could use a reliable source of info on science.

3. Posting hundreds of stupidly anti-science fake questions here is not a reliable way to learn science either.

4. Area is not the same as volume (people who flunked grade school science often never learned grade school math either).

5. Water expands when it freezes and vice versa. Never mind your dismally failed experience with basic education, fill a glass with ice cubes, let them melt and see how full of water the glass becomes.

You tell me it's your lie

It only rose 0.000003 mm

Too many fat people and polar bears swimming

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