The crumbling Thwaites Glacier

[lproven]

I shared a news article that gradually spread across a lot of the media last week. I said

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[lproven]

I found I'd had to write hundreds of words of explanation for what initially seemed easy, simple points... so maybe I should keep them in a blog post. Actually, due to the rather stone-age editor in LJ, it took an hour. Buggrit.

Interesting Links for 20-12-2021

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User andrewducker referenced to your post from Interesting Links for 20-12-2021 saying: [...] )The crumbling Thwaites Glacier - and why it might be about to raise sea levels by a *lot* [...]

Typo?

[lintle]

You have your last paragraph repeated twice.

Re: Typo?

[lproven]

Oh, so I do! Thank you -- I will fix that.

Good to know someone reads this stuff. :-D

Re: Typo?

[lproven]

FWIW: it was a hidden snipped of HTML that wasn't visible in the LJ editor at all. I had to go into the source code to find it.

[1] I *wish* LJ supported Markdown or something.

[2] The state of the online web editor art is _tragic_. :-(

Done Since 2021-12-19

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Displacing water

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> No, it is not about melting. It is about adding ice to the oceans, which adds mass. Archimedes' principle etc. Crystalline solids are a state of matter, a phase. It is irrelevant what phase the water is in; it's how much you add

Re: Displacing water

[lproven]

Er, well, yes, that is true.

But mountain ranges don't melt and dribble downhill, and if they did, we'd have bigger problems. Whereas ice does, and quite easily.

So, on a strict basis, yes, you are correct, but I am not sure it is a useful clarification in practical terms. :-)