re: 32 degrees at North Pole; Louisiana gulf waters rising?

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What????

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what dont you understand,

ice IS water, it floats in water only because its less dense but it displaces the volume of water it occupys, therefore if ice melts that is floating it doesnt increase the level of whatever its floating in.

to clarify, there is no land mass on which ice is resting in the artic, it is wide open ocean with floating ice....

if Greenlands' land bound ice were to melt sea levels would rise, floating ice doesnt lead to increase sea levels when melted.