[Outdoorsman]

Agreed...

This article is fascinating...this man--Jerry Mitrovica--is obviously a genius...the techniques used to arrive at the conclusions he's reached...just wow...

My takeaway is that the gravitational attraction of ocean waters that the Arctic, Anarctic and Greenland ice sheets currently provide will diminish as those ice sheets melt...

This means that water previously attracted to those ares will move south...

The polar regions will experience lowered sea levels...the temperate regions will experience a rise well beyond what was earlier predicted...

Sobering news...

[stephengillie]

He's such a genius that he uses Newton's gravity instead of Einstein's.

[kaybe]

In the area he's working here, it's totally fine. You only need relativity when you have extreme speeds or masses. Knowing which approximations are fine to use when is a skill too.