Sentences with phrase «unlike land ice»

Unlike land ice, sea ice doesn't affect sea levels because it's already displacing water.

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Unlike Arctic ice, which floats on water, Antarctic ice sits on land.

Contrary to what the vast majority of «liberal» and «conservative» members of the public think, climate scientists do not believe sea levels will rise if the north pole ice cap melts (unlike the south pole ice cap, which sits atop a land mass, the north pole «ice cap» is already floating in the sea, a point that various «climate science literacy» guides issued by scientific bodies like NASA and NOAA emphasize).

Unlike the melting of sea ice or the floating ice shelves along coasts, the melting of ice on land raises sea level.

In that way, Arctic ice is unlike land - based ice sheets and glaciers in places like Greenland and Antarctica — when that ice tips off its rocky seat into the ocean, high tides all over the planet lap a little farther up the shoreline.