jpk, that's a crock. Rush Limberger tried to get away with that one several years ago.

The two situations are not the same. The block of ice in the bucket of water displaces its own weight, so what you say works in the bucket. But the melting glaciers are not floating and displacing their own weight, they are sitting on land, NOT displacing any water in the oceans. So their mass, when melted, would flow into the oceans and raise the level.

I was just waiting for someone to try to pull that one off.

GOTCHA!!!

Don Firth