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by NullPrefix 977 days ago
melting icebergs don't rise sea level. Water is denser than ice, even if the iceberg melts, water just fills previously occupied space
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Unless the ice rest on land, like in Antarctica, which the article points out.
Definition of an iceberg: noun - a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier or ice sheet and carried out to sea.

If it rests on land, it's not an iceberg, is it?

Nah, I didn’t read the article so you can’t possibly be right. The ice will just fill previously occupied space.

Unfortunately said space will be peoples communities.