Climate Central: Antarctica holds an absurdly large amount of ice -- 3.5 million cubic miles' worth -- so it's reassuring to know that it isn't all going to melt anytime soon. If it did, sea level would go up about 180 ft., causing unimaginable devastation. But even with any reasonable projection for global warming, the air over Antarctica simply won't get warm enough to turn much of that ice into water. That's the good news. The bad news is that ice doesn't have to melt to raise sea level. It can simply plop...
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Enclosure: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/nature10968.html
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