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xxdotell t1_iuqdsdq wrote

It's sad how many people think there's only one reason for the rise in sea level. Of course warming oceans expand as do all physical objects. High school physics.

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cutelyaware t1_iuqkhuf wrote

Warming ice makes it contract

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CarelessHisser t1_iuqnulf wrote

Relative to displacement the expansion of the ocean is much greater than the contraction from ice. Especially with how much ice we've lost so far.

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cutelyaware t1_iuqpzzc wrote

You miss the point. I'm saying that not all physical objects expanded when heated, which you should have learned in high school physics or chemistry.

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GoGaslightYerself t1_iuqtbng wrote

And then there's land subsidence, like in southeast Virginia, where a bolide created a crater deeper than the Grand Canyon and bigger than Rhode Island, into which all the land has been sinking for the past 35 million years...

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