Sentences with phrase «immediately contribute to sea level rise»
Because the ice shelf is floating in the ocean, its melting does not immediately contribute to sea level rise.
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Melting and weakening in Antarctica occurs mostly at the margins and not in the interior, and what interior melting occurs, refreezes before it can contribute to sea level rise, while melting and weakening on the edge of the continent, contributes directly and immediately to sea level rise.